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A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

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Elizabeth Loftus

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

Believe, Experiments, Life, People, Real
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Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened,. . False memories have these characteristics too.

Actually, Characteristics, Mean, Memories, Remember, Thinking

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.

Bits, Different, Remember Something, Together

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Malleable, Memories, Susceptible, Way

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

Example, Heard, Inadvertently, Might, Pieces, Together

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

Fragile Things, Liberty, Like, Memories, Memory
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