Gemma Spike

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The Psychology of your 20s · 457. The psychology of 'false' memories · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

Hello everybody, I'm Gemma Spike and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. matched

hello everybody welcome back to the show welcome back to the podcast today i have another bonus episode for you all this is part of our um debunking psychology series it's a series where we take common psychology terms phrases myths or ideas and give you the real research and the real science that you deserve so that you really know what's up including some of the history as well matched

And today, our target, the topic we are turning our attention to, is false memories. matched

This is one of the biggest questions in psychology, and we've had it for a long time. matched

Can we trust what we remember? matched

How much of what we think happened actually did. matched

False memories and their confusion with repressed memories, their use as a defense in legal proceedings has quite a long, very controversial, very painful history in the psychology space that I don't think a lot of people know about. matched

So today I thought we'd spell out what they are, how they happen, and the critical research that we can use to show that false memories do exist. matched

And you actually likely have a few. matched

Plus, again, some of those big battles that have been fought that are very, very interesting over the identification or dismissal of the entire idea. matched

So without further ado, let's get into it. matched

So first things first, what exactly is a false memory? matched

So a false memory is a recollection that is either partly or completely inaccurate. matched

So it might involve remembering an event that never actually occurred, but you heard a lot about it. matched

So you thought you were there. matched

um you know you've attended a party and incorrectly remembering that somebody was there when they weren't you know recounting this really amazing moment where you met your partner and saying and he was wearing this really cool red top and him saying no i wasn't or that didn't happen that day you know it's that that sort of stuff where maybe the majority of the memory is sound and is true and matched

And then there are these little details that just seem to have changed over time. matched

It's why people disagree over stories all the time. matched

Within your family, you probably had it happen. matched

Somebody says it happened this way. matched

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