'I have a very vivid memory of watching the Challenger shuttle disaster in high school. The problem? The Challenger disaster happened two years after I graduated' (Corbis) When, in 2012, the artist AR ...

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Alan Alda had nothing against hard-boiled eggs until last spring. Then the actor, better known as Hawkeye from M*A*S*H, paid a visit to the University of California, Irvine. In his new guise as host ...

Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly rewriting the script. That is why people can be absolutely certain they ...

The data are far less conclusive there. Let's look at four examples that are frequently cited in the popular press as unequivocal evidence of false memory formation. The first is a study by Elizabeth ...