Interactive Reading

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Many people believe their memories work like video recordings, faithfully storing events for later replay. Psychologists have shown this is not how memory works. Each time we recall something, we partly rebuild it, and small errors or later information can quietly slip in. In experiments, people have confidently described details of events that never happened, simply because they were asked leading questions or shown suggestive images. These false memories can feel just as vivid and certain as real ones. This is why eyewitness accounts, once treated as powerful evidence in court, are now handled with greater caution, since confidence in a memory does not guarantee its accuracy.