Your brain can be conned into believing you committed a crime

03 Feb 2015 • engadget.com

During the study’s three-stage interviews, the facilitators mixed the participants’ real memories (as told by their families and/or guardians) with “clues” pertaining to the false ones. Subjects were told that their families had corroborated those “facts” and they could use visualization techniques to “recall” those faux-suppressed memories. The result? Around 71 percent of the group convinced that they’ve once committed a crime and 77 percent of the group manipulated to recall fake tragic events developed true false memories. That means they seriously believed those recollections were true and could recall more than 10 details of the false events.

What the hell? Is this for real? 71%. #wtf