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Wikipedia: Lost in the mall technique

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique
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Wikipedia: Lost in the mall technique
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The "lost in the mall" technique or experiment is a memory implantation technique used to demonstrate that confabulations about events that never took place - such as having been lost in a shopping mall as a child - can be created through suggestions made to experimental subjects that their older relative was present at the time.
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This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 3 well-attested, 1 partially Attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Psychological Phenomena, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 partially Attested, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.

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Partially Attested

1

Psychological Phenomena

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