Memory is prone to distortions that can have serious consequences in everyday life. Here
we integrate emerging evidence that several types of memory distortions–imagination …

People externalize their autobiographical memories by creating representations that exist
outside of their minds. Externalizations often serve personal and social functions, consistent …

In the largest false memory study to date, 5,269 participants were asked about their
memories for three true and one of five fabricated political events. Each fabricated event was …

Machine-learning has enabled the creation of “deepfake videos”; highly-realistic footage that
features a person saying or doing something they never did. In recent years, this technology …

Understanding that suggestive practices can promote false beliefs and false memories for
childhood events is important in many settings (eg, psychotherapeutic, medical, and legal) …

Decades of research show that people are susceptible to developing false memories. But if
they do so in one task, are they likely to do so in a different one? The answer:“No”. In the …

In this article, we review the state of knowledge about a previously-assumed-to-be-rare
memory phenomenon called nonbelieved memories. Nonbelieved memories are a …

A recent study showed that many people spontaneously report vivid memories of events that
they do not believe to have occurred. In the present experiment we tested for the first time …

Human memory is prone to error and distortion. It has been proposed that memory's
misdeeds can be classified into seven categories or 'sins'. This article discusses the impact …

Trauma-focused imagery-based interventions, such as Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) and
Imaginal Exposure (ImE), are effective in reducing involuntary re-experiencing in PTSD …