The article explores how false beliefs and memories can be implanted, with plausibility and repeated suggestion affecting the likelihood of belief formation and vivid false memories. It uses a lab-based blind implantation method to examine how these factors interact and what that means for real-world situations such as legal settings.

This topic is of interest to psychology because it sheds light on the malleability of memory and the influence of suggestion, belief formation, and imagined details on recollection. It highlights the importance of context and interview techniques in understanding memory reliability.

Article Title: Psychologists implant false beliefs to understand how human memory fails

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/psychologists-implant-false-beliefs-to-understand-how-human-memory-fails/

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#memory #falsebeliefs #falsememories #plausibility #legalpsychology

This brief संबद्ध note highlights aspects relevant to mental health practice: the report illustrates how cannabis-associated THC effects span multiple memory systems, with potential implications for everyday functioning and reliability of self-reported experiences. For clinicians and allied therapists, awareness of memory distortions linked to cannabis use can inform assessment and collateral interviewing, helping to distinguish true events from misremembered ones in clients who use or are exposed to cannabis.

Article Title: Cannabis study finds THC can create false memories

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://www dot sciencedaily dot com/releases/2026/03/260311004711 dot htm

#memory #cannabis #falsememories #neuroscience #mentalhealth

Cannabis study finds THC can create false memories
https://www dot sciencedaily dot com/releases/2026/03/260311004711 dot htm
THC doesn’t just blur memories—it can create new ones that never happened. In a controlled experiment, cannabis users were much more likely to recall words that were never shown and struggled with tasks like remembering to do something later. Researchers found that THC disrupted many different memory systems at once. Surprisingly, moderate doses caused memory problems similar to higher doses.
via Mind & Brain News -- ScienceDaily https://www dot sciencedaily dot com/news/mind_brain/
March 11, 2026 at 12:47AM

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"We report what we believe to be the first systematic review of 42 empirical studies of Recovered Memories (RM) published since 2000. This review establishes RM as a post-Memory Wars clinical phenomenon, with reports of RM common enough to warrant routine consideration in clinical practice and future research. Taken together, these estimates suggest a higher level of prevalence than is typically estimated for the phenomenon of dissociative amnesia (e.g., ranging between 0.2% and 7.3%; Staniloiu & Markowitsch, 2014) or indeed for well-established diagnoses like anorexia nervosa (0.4%; Galmiche et al., 2019)."

Carey, O. G., Dempsey, M., Minihane, K., & Murphy, G. (2025).
When, where, and how often do individuals recover memories of traumatic experiences? A systematic review.
Memory, Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2601699

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"Notably, the generative chatbot condition induced nearly triple the number of false memories observed in the control group and approximately 1.7 times more than the survey-based method, with 36.8% of responses being misled as false memories one week later."

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/ai-false-memories/overview/

#genAI #AI #falseMemories #persuasion #psychology #memory #research

Here's one for the #Education #K12 people maybe.

What's that #NurseryRhyme (i think?) something about... i think it's #cheese . and they're all sitting there. Might be a #hen with a #classroom of #students but i prob made it up like #falsememories

the IMPORTANT part is the end (of course) where the one guy-- i think he's a #rat -- well, he says "I'll have some of it...", and the hen basically tells him he's a jerk, and shouldn't have any because he didn't #contribute to making the cheese (whatever it was).
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Sound familiar?
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Research has shown that even the memories that we see as being fundamental are prone to bias, and even outright fabrication. Discussing the consequences of false memories at QED will be Christopher French, Ciara Greene, Kevin Felstead, and Deborah Hyde.

https://qedcon.org/news/2023/announcing-false-memory-and-satanic-abuse-panel

#falsememories #skeptic #science #qedcon