The Redditors it interviewed pushed back: The New Statesman noted the simplest explanation for this phenomenon - that people were misremembering then-basketball star Shaquille O’Neal’s starring as a genie in the awful 1996 film “Kazaam,” directed and co-written by Paul Michael Glaser (aka Starsky). The term was coined by a woman who discovered that she and hundreds of other people believed, and remembered, that died in prison in the 1980s. It appears that this is another instance of the “ Mandela Effect,” an informal term for a collective false memory. The Snopes fact-checking website also weighed in by bringing up another widely held false belief: All it took was showing study participants fake letters from relatives that claimed they had been lost in a mall as a child. More famously, she showed that people can be made to recall childhood memories that never happened. In her research, just the mere suggestion by an interviewer that cars “collided” instead of “hit” will lead people to recall a car accident as more severe than it was. Human memory is really, really malleable.Įlizabeth Loftus, psychology’s leading researcher on false memory, has shown this time and time again. “This ‘Shazaam’ thing is a fairly simple example, or at least starts, with a fairly simple example of exactly that.” “All memories, when we retrieve them, are constructed out of stuff that’s been stored and is in our minds somehow,” Chabris said.
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