National survey reveals widespread mistaken beliefs about memory

Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 02:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A new survey reveals that many people in the U.S. – in some cases a substantial majority – think that memory is more powerful, objective and reliable than it actually is. Their ideas are at odds with decades of scientific research.

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