Not exact matches
Even more interesting is that these
false memories contribute to attitudes about the relative merits of the product, or what they
call «the
false experience effect.»
We should argue through the ambiguity of claims to martyrdom and refuse to let deaths be co-opted by
false memories or ideologies or turned to
calls for revenge.
Those who «recalled» more lures were assumed to be more prone to
false memories, and were found to have higher - quality neural connections,
called axons, in the superior longitudinal fascicle, known to be associated with gist - based
memory (Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.5270 - 08.2009).
The good news is that we are not on the verge of what the Boston Globe has
called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose
false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»
An organisation
called the British
False Memory Society aims to sponsor research into allegations of abuse following hypnotherapy.
The good news is that we are not on the verge of what The Boston Globe has
called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose
false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»
McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who are on all other measures sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to
false memories is a trait
called absorption: «They score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.