Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly rewriting the script. That is why people can be absolutely certain they ...

Remembering Satan, Lawrence Wright's widely read book, profiles a 1980s father who "remembers" inflicting ritual abuse on his daughters. The book blames false memories primarily on interrogators who ...

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...