Ciara Greene

And you'll tell me where you remember it from and how you felt at the time and all kinds of things. OK, even though we just made it up. But what we find really consistently is that that is way more likely if that story is congruent with your existing ideological views.

And you'll tell me where you remember it from and how you felt at the time and all kinds of things. OK, even though we just made it up. But what we find really consistently is that that is way more likely if that story is congruent with your existing ideological views.

So if it's a story that reflects well on your group or reflects badly on the other side, you're much more likely to form a false memory for that than you are if it reflects well on the other team or reflects badly on your team.

So if it's a story that reflects well on your group or reflects badly on the other side, you're much more likely to form a false memory for that than you are if it reflects well on the other team or reflects badly on your team.

So if it's a story that reflects well on your group or reflects badly on the other side, you're much more likely to form a false memory for that than you are if it reflects well on the other team or reflects badly on your team.

And again, that is part of that idea where we think it's a part of kind of shoring up those social bonds that we're kind of reinforcing that sense of identity with our social groups. And, you know, being part of a social group is, again, a hugely important survival factor. And humans are social animals. We don't survive well on our own.

And again, that is part of that idea where we think it's a part of kind of shoring up those social bonds that we're kind of reinforcing that sense of identity with our social groups. And, you know, being part of a social group is, again, a hugely important survival factor. And humans are social animals. We don't survive well on our own.

And again, that is part of that idea where we think it's a part of kind of shoring up those social bonds that we're kind of reinforcing that sense of identity with our social groups. And, you know, being part of a social group is, again, a hugely important survival factor. And humans are social animals. We don't survive well on our own.

We live as part of a society and being integrated in a society and feeling part of a social group is a hugely important part of our psychological makeup.

We live as part of a society and being integrated in a society and feeling part of a social group is a hugely important part of our psychological makeup.

We live as part of a society and being integrated in a society and feeling part of a social group is a hugely important part of our psychological makeup.

We kind of tend to see our thoughts and believe in our thoughts as objective reality. And sometimes kind of there's a therapeutic technique called defusion that's about trying to take that step back. So to put it simply, it's that idea of to recognize your own thoughts and to reflect on them. So to kind of to see things like saying, for example, you might have the thought, I'm a failure.

We kind of tend to see our thoughts and believe in our thoughts as objective reality. And sometimes kind of there's a therapeutic technique called defusion that's about trying to take that step back. So to put it simply, it's that idea of to recognize your own thoughts and to reflect on them. So to kind of to see things like saying, for example, you might have the thought, I'm a failure.

We kind of tend to see our thoughts and believe in our thoughts as objective reality. And sometimes kind of there's a therapeutic technique called defusion that's about trying to take that step back. So to put it simply, it's that idea of to recognize your own thoughts and to reflect on them. So to kind of to see things like saying, for example, you might have the thought, I'm a failure.

OK, you can either say like, well, that means I am a failure, as in this thought has objective reality, or you can take a step back and say and recognize that, no, I'm having the thought that I'm a failure. That actually doesn't mean that I am. I just recognize that I'm having that thought and just taking that little bit of distance and recognizing that not every thought that you have

OK, you can either say like, well, that means I am a failure, as in this thought has objective reality, or you can take a step back and say and recognize that, no, I'm having the thought that I'm a failure. That actually doesn't mean that I am. I just recognize that I'm having that thought and just taking that little bit of distance and recognizing that not every thought that you have

OK, you can either say like, well, that means I am a failure, as in this thought has objective reality, or you can take a step back and say and recognize that, no, I'm having the thought that I'm a failure. That actually doesn't mean that I am. I just recognize that I'm having that thought and just taking that little bit of distance and recognizing that not every thought that you have

necessarily holds objective truth that you can take that distance from them and say these are look observe my thoughts observe how my thoughts are working observe the patterns that they go in and and then recognize that

necessarily holds objective truth that you can take that distance from them and say these are look observe my thoughts observe how my thoughts are working observe the patterns that they go in and and then recognize that

necessarily holds objective truth that you can take that distance from them and say these are look observe my thoughts observe how my thoughts are working observe the patterns that they go in and and then recognize that