Kurzinhalt: Have you ever remembered something so clearly that you were 100% positive in its retelling, only to second-guess yourself as soon as a contradiction surfaces? This phenomenon - memory misattribution - happens all the time; to all of us. We like to think of our memories as drawers full of files or bytes on a computer hard drive, but in reality they’re much more malleable. To illustrate this point, author Jonah Lehrer and psychologist Daniel Schacter share two stories of mixed-up memories, and their sometimes dire consequences.
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