Misinformation effect

What it is

Memories get altered by information received after the event, and we can recall events that never happened.

Related

• Availability heuristic bias
  Vivid, repeated or imagined events become easy to recall and feel real.
• Illusory truth effect bias
  Repetition makes false claims and false memories feel true.
• Falsification of history bias
  Rewriting history is often unconscious, through the changeability of memory.

References

• Wikipedia: Misinformation effect en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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