Gemma Spike

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

What were the details of that like? matched

You know, what happened? matched

What about when your cousin did that thing? matched

Explain that, describe that, give me some more information about that. matched

Now, just imagining something, when they just gave that prompt for somebody to simply imagine that that had happened, it gave the whole thing a deeper sense of truth and matched

And a lot of these participants started to actually then recite these memories as if they were their own. matched

When the researchers knew they hadn't happened, we told you to think about it. matched

And that process of thinking about it and imagining it and adding your own details is what made it feel real. matched

So this became known as imagination inflation, which is just like such a great term, imagination inflation, great band name. matched

Essentially, repeatedly picturing an event makes it easier and more familiar to retain and to return to. matched

And it happens all the time. matched

Now, imagining something once, especially something you know isn't real, doesn't necessarily mean that you've created a false memory. matched

What is required is a level of plausibility, a level of repetition and some kind of personal relevance of the event as well or of the detail. matched

So any detail that gets added in, anything that you kind of accidentally create for yourself has to feel real. matched

So it's often borrowed from other events or borrowed from other people's memories. matched

Other people have a massive influence on our false memories and what we remember and what we don't. matched

This is called the misinformation effect. matched

When misleading information is encountered after an event, especially from somebody that we trust or know, and then we are later asked to recall that event, often that misleading information matched

gets added in without us even realizing it. matched

We know this from a very famous 19, I think it was like 1974 study from Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer. matched

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