BY TIM NEWCOMB AUG 10, 2022 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO In new research, scientists prove that the Visual Mandela Effect—a consistent, confident, and widespread false memory—occurs with famous icons. University of Chicago scholars say this is the first scientific study of the internet phenomenon. It shows a consistency in both what people remember and what they misremember. We’re confident...
by Duke University Credit: CC0 Public Domain You’re starting to tell that old story to a couple of new friends, and suddenly another person who was there says ‘no, it wasn’t like that!’ Without a video recording to settle the dispute, it’s pretty hard to know who has the real memory and who has an...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A small team of researchers from the University of Hagen, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and the University of Portsmouth has found that false memories planted in the minds of volunteers can be just as easily erased. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National...
by Neil Dagnall And Ken Drinkwater, The Conversation There’s a theory doing the rounds online that nuclear research experiments caused the world to shift into an alternate reality where Donald Trump became president. This might sound stupid, but some people genuinely believe it to be true. And to back up their theory they cite the “Mandela effect,” a phenomenon...
