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 +The overwhelming majority of the population—probably more than ever before—now believes in the myth of “repressed” traumatic memories that are blocked from consciousness and can be recovered in therapy.
 +Among the most pervasive beliefs [about memory] is that traumatic experiences can be repressed and later recovered, an idea first proposed by Freud. Despite decades of research demonstrating that traumatic events are typically well remembered and that reports of repression are better explained by processes such as avoidance, suggestion, or source misattribution, endorsement of repressed memory remains strikingly high in the general public.
 +[(CreatingMemories2>Who believes in repressed memories? The roles of gender, age, and education in a national sample of United States adults [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09658211.2025.2586125|Grady, R. B., Miller, Q. C., London, K., & Loftus, E. F. (2025). Who believes in repressed memories? The roles of gender, age, and education in a national sample of United States adults. Memory, 1–11.]])]
  
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 It’s been said that when someone is lying, they tend to narrate specific details to make you believe them. Our brain functions similarly to a computer, storing anything we feed it. If we provide it incorrect information, it will store incorrect information. It convinces us that a memory exists because it truly took place. Memories tend to be in fragments as we recall them, and we realize that there are a bunch of loopholes and we can begin to fill in the loopholes ourselves by whichever piece of the puzzle fits perfectly.[(CreatingMemories>Creating Memories for False Autobiographical Events in Childhood: A Systematic Review [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3220|onlinelibrary.wiley.com]])] It’s been said that when someone is lying, they tend to narrate specific details to make you believe them. Our brain functions similarly to a computer, storing anything we feed it. If we provide it incorrect information, it will store incorrect information. It convinces us that a memory exists because it truly took place. Memories tend to be in fragments as we recall them, and we realize that there are a bunch of loopholes and we can begin to fill in the loopholes ourselves by whichever piece of the puzzle fits perfectly.[(CreatingMemories>Creating Memories for False Autobiographical Events in Childhood: A Systematic Review [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3220|onlinelibrary.wiley.com]])]
  
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