http://www.productivity501.com/false-memories/1015/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.productivity501.com/false-memories/1015/comment-page-1/#comment-150045 How Reliable Are Your Memories « Mark’s Blog Fri, 07 May 2010 17:24:06 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=1015#comment-150045 [...] is reliable. Sadly experiment showed this is not the case. Forgetting something is one thing but a false memory is something entirely different. Unfortunately humans are very predisposed to having false [...] [...] is reliable. Sadly experiment showed this is not the case. Forgetting something is one thing but a false memory is something entirely different. Unfortunately humans are very predisposed to having false [...]

]]> http://www.productivity501.com/false-memories/1015/comment-page-1/#comment-75350 Derek Ralston Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:27:49 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=1015#comment-75350 Nice post... A good book explaining this is false memories phenomenon is Stumbling on Happiness. There are lots of problems with our recollections, both into the past and into the future. For an example of into the future, our memory exaggerates how happy/sad we predict we will be when a future event would occur (ex. winning the lottery or losing your job). Nice post… A good book explaining this is false memories phenomenon is Stumbling on Happiness. There are lots of problems with our recollections, both into the past and into the future. For an example of into the future, our memory exaggerates how happy/sad we predict we will be when a future event would occur (ex. winning the lottery or losing your job).

]]> http://www.productivity501.com/false-memories/1015/comment-page-1/#comment-75037 Pieter Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:25:21 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=1015#comment-75037 A few years ago a filmmaker was stabbed to death in the Netherlands. The first eye-witness accounts talked about a man wearing a raincoat. It wasn't until the media started talking about the fact that this man was a muslim that the eyewitnesses changed their minds and all remembered him wearing traditional muslim clothing. Security camera's later showed that the first accounts were correct and the man was indeed wearing a raincoat. A good example of how people memory changes due to outside interferance. A few years ago a filmmaker was stabbed to death in the Netherlands. The first eye-witness accounts talked about a man wearing a raincoat. It wasn’t until the media started talking about the fact that this man was a muslim that the eyewitnesses changed their minds and all remembered him wearing traditional muslim clothing. Security camera’s later showed that the first accounts were correct and the man was indeed wearing a raincoat. A good example of how people memory changes due to outside interferance.

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