Effect - The Mandela Effect - False Memories & Collective Confusion - The Science of Why We're Wrong

"The Science of Why We're Wrong"
Your brain isn't the reliable recorder you think it is. Episode two dives into the neuroscience and psychology behind false memories, revealing how memory works more like Wikipedia than a video camera—constantly edited and reconstructed. Explore groundbreaking research from psychologist Elizabeth Loftus showing how easily memories can be implanted and manipulated. Discover concepts like confabulation, source confusion, and schema theory that explain why thousands share identical false memories. Learn how the internet amplifies these errors through social reinforcement and confirmation bias. This episode dismantles our confidence in memory and explains the scientific mechanisms behind the Mandela Effect—no parallel universes required.
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