{"id":120877,"date":"2021-03-25T15:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/false-memories-can-be-planted-and-then-reversed-researchers-find"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:22:48","slug":"false-memories-can-be-planted-and-then-reversed-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/false-memories-can-be-planted-and-then-reversed-researchers-find","title":{"rendered":"False Memories Can Be Planted and Then Reversed, Researchers Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/false-memories-can-be-planted-and-then-reversed-researchers-find.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scientists used interviews to convince some study subjects they had undergone childhood events that didn\u2019t happen to them, such as getting lost or being in a car accident, according to a report published Monday in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Then the researchers said they used other interview techniques that prompted the volunteers to reassess the memories and help realize they might be false or misremembered.<\/p>\n<p>The work confirms previous research on the malleability of memories while pointing to potential techniques for recognizing and rooting them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientists used interviews to convince some study subjects they had undergone childhood events that didn\u2019t happen to them, such as getting lost or being in a car accident, according to a report published Monday in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Then the researchers said they used other interview techniques [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}