• daannii@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah there was a few psychologists responsible for causing kids to think they were in a cult. Dr Elizabeth Loftus was the researcher who has spent her career investigating false memory and how it’s created and strengthened. She also does work with eye witnesses. How witnesses can be led to form false memory of perpetrator or even what happened.

    It’s honestly kind of upsetting to many people when they learn how easily memory can be manipulated and how unreliable our own memory is.

    We like to think we “know” what we saw. And we would know if a memory wasn’t real. But we often do not.