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There is more to memory than inaccuracy and distortion.

Brady Wagoner1

  • 1Department of Communication and Psychology,Aalborg University,Aalborg 9000,Denmark.wagoner@hum.aau.dkhttps://aalborg.academia.edu/BradyWagoner.

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|March 23, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Memory research sometimes overstates inaccuracy and downplays truthfulness. This commentary examines schema and misinformation effects on memory distortion, referencing Bartlett (1932) for a more balanced view.

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