How memory works: why you can be sure of something that never happened
False memories: can someone plant a memory of something that never happened?
One word can change the memory of a day that did happen. Can someone plant a whole day that never happened, like being lost in a shopping mall as a child?
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In 1995, Elizabeth Loftus asked the families of 24 people for three true stories from their childhood. She added a fourth that never happened: lost in a shopping mall at about age five.
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Each person read the four stories, written as if from their family, and tried to remember them. They came back twice to tell what they remembered.
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