Psychology

You can be made to 'remember' a word that was never said

Read a list of words like bed, rest, awake, tired, dream, wake, snooze — and most people will later swear they also heard the word 'sleep,' even though it never appeared. This robust lab effect shows memory doesn't record events like a tape; it reconstructs them from association, and the reconstruction can insert things that never happened.

Henry L. Roediger III & Kathleen McDermott, Creating False Memories: Remembering Words Not Presented in Lists — Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1995

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