... passage of time, with proper motivation, with the introduction of special kinds of interfering facts, the memory traces seem sometimes to change or become transformed. These distortions can be quite frightening, for they can cause us to have memories that never actually happened" (1997). Loftus refers to an experience she had soon after her father died. At first her thoughts of him ... events they had previously recorded in their diaries. Although the participant's recollections corresponded to the main gist of their actual experiences, they made many errors. Eysenck and Keane (2000) sug...

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