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Seeking fictional first memories
47 percent: That’s the proportion of people who have a first memory that’s actually fictional, according to a new study in Psychological Science by researchers in London. Our first memories usuall date from about age
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Myth: Traumatic Memories Are Often Repressed and Later Recovered
This provides students with an opportunity to see that, often, analyses may lead to conclusions that are not final.
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A Grand Memory Tour
In a wide-ranging look at memory, psychological scientists Henry “Roddy” Roediger, III, Dorthe Berntsen, Qi Wang, and Charan Ranganath reveal how brain circuitry, situational cues, culture, and shared experiences influence our recollections.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring eye movements and false memory, inflexibility in obsessive-compulsive disorder, and cognitive control in depression.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring inspiration and belief in God, replicability of implicit theory of mind paradigms, and memory distortion resulting from context reinstatement.
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We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
Seeing is believing. And because of this fact, we’re screwed. Due to advances in artificial intelligence, it’s now possible to convincingly map anyone’s face onto the body of another person in a video. As Vox’s
