MysterionMuffles Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/02/08/planting-false-memories-fairly-easy-psychologists-find.html
shirgall Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 The article says the same thing, but let me underscore it. Making someone's memory what you want it to do it hard. Making it incorrect is easy. Stressful events with lots of witnesses are particularly painful if the witness start talking to one another, or watch one another being questioned about the event. They will quickly conflate their stories to become some combination of what they remember and what is being said to the point that what they remember will become different. They can even be influenced by recordings of the event that they watch afterward. Investigators, historians, and journalists have to be very careful how they ask questions if they do not want to influence memories as well. Memory is actually pretty bad when it comes to details. This is why one of the techniques for spotting a liar is their memory being too good for details that people don't usually notice. 1
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