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A pair of forensic psychologists have created false memories of wrongdoing in law-abiding minds.
As such they may have also created false memories in this process.
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Schacter offers a particularly useful discussion of how misleading suggestions -- during questioning by the police, for example -- can create false memories in eyewitnesses.
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