Memory Distortion And False Memory

A memory phenomenon in which the content of a memory changes, is contaminated by outside information, or is recalled with a confidence that outpaces its actual accuracy, distinct from an ordinary retrieval failure because the person genuinely believes an altered or invented memory to be accurate. This group gathers the memory distortion and false-memory phenomena recorded for this atlas, including documented eyewitness-testimony research, suggestibility and social contamination of memory, and cases where a memory's content itself, rather than only its accessibility, has been altered.