Loftus and Palmer in 1974

These two girls were working in Cognitive Psychology. They took a huge sample of people and showed them a video of a car accident. Then afterwords, they interviewed each candidate. They all had COMPLETELY different opinions on every question asked such as FOR EXAMPLE:
>What speed (approximately) was the red car going?
>What speed (approximately) was the white car going?
>Who was at fault?
>Were any other cars involved?
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc...

Now there were, i think several questions asked about say BROKEN GLASS, and if they candidate saw it. Well there was in fact NO BROKEN GLASS, but the candidates, EVERY one of them, said they saw it.

There is more to this study, and you can look it up, but basically the researchers stated that people reconstruct MEMORY. Our brains, perhaps our subconcious, but mostly our concious reconstruct memories that are not true.

Applied to dreaming: When we wake up in the morning and can't remember all of our dreams, but fragments, we ALL reconstruct memories, even subconsiously for various reasons...


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