The Mandela effect is a phenomenon where many people share the same false memory, like the belief that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the '80s.

Film producer Robert Evans famously said, “There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.” Evans had it right in some respects, as people can mistakenly create false or ...

Memory is not a video recorder, even though we might like to think it is. Our eyes are not lenses through which we perfectly capture reality. Our brain is not a flash hard drive. Rather, memory is ...

I was eleven-years-old when the 9/11 attacks happened. I have a vivid memory of walking home from school in the UK with my grandmother that day. We passed a shop with a bank of TVs facing into the ...

Over the past couple of decades, there has been an explosion of research into “false memories,” showing that our memory can be subtly altered by a variety of internal and external factors. Many ...

(CNN) — Does Mr. Monopoly wear a monocle? Is there a black stripe on Pikachu’s tail? And does the fruit in the Fruit of the Loom logo pour out of a cornucopia? If you answered yes to any of these ...

We all want other people to "get us" and appreciate us for who we really are. In striving to achieve such relationships, we typically assume that there is a "real me." But how do we actually know who ...

Source: Matthew Baxter, used with permission. In the recent court case of British former socialite and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, her legal team called in a false memory expert. False ...