Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly ...

A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

This post was co-written by Dr. Deryn Strange, professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College. Our memories are not perfect reconstructions of the past. Instead, remembering a past event is a ...

A new study suggests both defendants and complainants are equally prone to memory distortions in sexual assault cases. Challenging long-held assumptions about how memory distortion should be ...

A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry reports that chronic cannabis users are more likely to experience false memories. We're all susceptible to false memories and distorted perceptions of ...

New research from psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles has found that when we repeatedly experience very similar events, our memories of those events can start to blur ...

The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) refers to the tendency for the emotional intensity associated with unpleasant autobiographical events to decay more rapidly over time than that linked to pleasant events.

Papers originally presented at the first conference sponsored by the Harvard Center for the Study of Mind, Brain, and Behavior in Cambridge, Mass., May 6-8, 1994. Contents The Reality of illusory ...

A new study suggests both defendants and complainants are equally prone to memory distortions in sexual assault cases. Challenging long-held assumptions about how memory distortion should be ...