I have seen research where false memories were induced into people by photoshopping childhood images of those people into events that did not happen to them — and worse, in 16% of cases just by showing adverts of things that could not happen such as meeting Bugs Bunny at Disney World (wrong franchise): http://people.uncw.edu/tothj/PSY510/Loftus-Memory%20for%20Th...
Fascinating - thanks for the article. It's strange to think that however much we think that we're completely rational and can trust our own memories, we're more like malleable rationalizing machines.
I have seen research where false memories were induced into people by photoshopping childhood images of those people into events that did not happen to them — and worse, in 16% of cases just by showing adverts of things that could not happen such as meeting Bugs Bunny at Disney World (wrong franchise): http://people.uncw.edu/tothj/PSY510/Loftus-Memory%20for%20Th...