The visual Mandela effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people
Prasad and Bainbridge, 2022. Experiment 1, 100 adults: certain images from popular iconography elicit consistent, specific false memories. Experiment 2, 60 adults: no attentional or visual differences that drive the phenomenon. Experiment 3: no clear difference in natural visual experience of the images. Experiment 4, 50 adults: the errors occur spontaneously during recall. People make the same false-memory error despite most visual experience being the canonical image.
Prasad and Bainbridge, 2022. Experiment 1, 100 adults: certain images from popular iconography elicit consistent, specific false memories. Experiment 2, 60 adults: no attentional or visual differences that drive the phenomenon. Experiment 3: no clear difference in natural visual experience of the images. Experiment 4, 50 adults: the errors occur spontaneously during recall. People make the same false-memory error despite most visual experience being the canonical image.
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Prasad, D., & Bainbridge, W. A. (2022). The visual Mandela effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people. Psychological Science, 33(12), 1971-1988. doi:10.1177/09567976221108944 https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221108944