Psychology and More

We just finished talking in class about memory. On that topic, Mind Hacks refers to an interesting New York Times article on researchers who are interested in recovered memories.

The researchers claim that the earliest account is from the 1782 novel Dangerous Liaisons and have published their findings in the journal Psychological Medicine.
They suggest that the idea of a recovered memory is a cultural invention and people are likely to arrive at the clinic with trauma and memory problems already shaped by these ideas.

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