#FalseMemory

Skeptixskeptix_ev
2025-06-16

📰 | Falscherinnerungen – das Thema, dem Wieskerstrauch und Co. sich standhaft verweigern

Falscherinnerungen sind ein Thema, dem sich die Satanic-Panic-Szene verweigert. Lieber dreht man Filme über angebliche „Blinde Flecken“. Bernd Harder gibt im einen kurzen Überblick - wenn ich mich richtig erinnere.

skeptix.org/2025/06/16/falsche

Moritz Bartlgamambel@toot.cat
2025-05-22

"[…] Although the prevalence of false memories of child abuse in child care centers was largely exaggerated, the "witch hunt narrative" continues to be kept alive by some media, academic, and textbook discussions about dissociation and child abuse. Researchers who have analyzed textbooks have consistently concluded that much of the information about child maltreat-ment, child abuse memories, and DDs is inaccurate, biased, sensationalized, and/or not empirically based (Brand et al., 2019a; Kissee et al., 2014; Wilgus et al., 2015). Undergraduate and graduate psychology textbooks typically include relatively little coverage about TRDs and DDs, and many include factually inaccurate or sensationalized information rather than evidence-based research (Brand et al., 2019a; Wilgus et al., 2015). Some authors of psychology textbooks only present research that shows that memories can be in-accurate, failing to present research that documents that delayed recollections of child abuse are as likely to be accurate as they are inaccurate (Dalenberg, 1996, 2006; Williams, 1995). In fact, many of the most prominent authors who previously challenged the accuracy of delayed recollections of abuse have recently admitted they are now "open to the possibility that some recovered memories are genuine" (Lynn et al., 2014, p. 23). Recent reviews of this debate are available (e.g., Brand et al., 2017a, 2017b, 2018; Dalenberg et al., 2012, 2014; Lynn et al., 2014; Merckelbach & Patihis, 2018).

In a climate where many academics and textbooks tend to present sensationalized portrayals of DDs and only one side of the debate about the accuracy of child abuse memories, there is less open-minded discussion, training, and research about child abuse and its im-pact, including dissociation and DDs. One impact of this biased presentation is that people who have already been victimized in childhood and/or adulthood may suffer longer with TRD, poor quality of life, and a host of other sequelae of trauma. They are also at risk for encountering mental health and health care professionals who challenge the validity of their symptoms and DD (Nester, Hawkins & Brand, 2022). For example, 80% of Australian patients diagnosed with a DD reported they had experienced skeptical or antagonistic attitudes from clinicians about their DD diagnosis or dissociative symptoms (Leonard et al., 2005).

Survivors of childhood abuse often experience disbelief, being blamed for the abuse, or a lack of compassion and/or protection if they have the courage to reveal the abuse. For example, 52% of women who revealed to a parent that they were being incestuously abused in childhood reported that the abuse continued for 1 year or longer after disclosure (Roesler & Wind, 1994), and many received reactions that blamed them rather than the abuser (McTavish et al., 2019; Roesler & Wind, 1994; Romano et al., 2019).

Trauma survivors should not encounter damaging reactions when they seek assistance from the very professionals who are supposed to help them, not further compound their distress."

-- The Finding Solid Ground Program Workbook: Overcoming Obstacles in Trauma Recovery. 2022. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780

#CPTSD #FalseMemory

Nachgefragt-Podcastnachgefragt
2025-05-08

Die neue Folge ist da: Was passiert, wenn Therapeut:innen überzeugt sind, ihre Patient:innen seien Opfer ritueller Gewalt – obwohl es keine Belege gibt?
Mit Theologe Kai Funkschmidt spreche ich über Satanic Panic, den Mythos ritueller Gewalt und die Folgen für die Psychotherapie.
🎧 Jetzt anhören & weitergeben: nachgefragt-podcast.de/2025/05

2025-01-26

[Nostalgia Nerd] explains the Mandela Effect
youtu.be/ITotBIkCAPo
I blame the cheapness of the C3PO action figure I was given as a child for why it is only today that I've learned only one of his legs is gold.
#StarWars #FalseMemory #LooneyTunes #MonopolyMonocle #DisneyLogo #SteamboatWillie

David GraylessDavidGrayless
2024-09-20

Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the , and criticism of . Loftus's research includes the effects of phrasing on the perceptions of automobile crashes, the and the manipulation of food preferences through the use of false memories. In the that began in 1997, Loftus and Melvin J. Guyer revealed serious concerns about the background.

2024-05-16

Trauma und Erinnerung

"Insbesondere Verfahren, die mit Bildern arbeiten, wie imaginative Verfahren, stehen im Verdacht, Erinnerungsphänomene zu verfälschen oder gar Scheinerinnerungen zu produzieren. Jüngere Untersuchungen stellen dies infrage; sie haben ergeben, dass sich die Anzahl der richtigen Details im freien Abruf bei der Gruppe, die das imaginative Verfahren erhalten hatte, sogar verbesserte, nicht aber bei der Kontrollgruppe."

link.springer.com/article/10.1

#FalseMemory #Trauma

2023-10-14

The brain has a tell for when it’s recalling a false memory, study suggests. A new study used brain scans and eye tracking to measure how people remember events that never happened. The study found that false memories are associated with lower brain activity and less eye movement than true memories. #FalseMemory #BrainScan #LiveScience livescience.com/health/neurosc

2023-09-21

D.I.S. Ding haben eine Videoreihe gestartet, die über die "False Memory" Bewegung aufklären soll. Ein unglaublich gut recherchierter Beitrag mit wissenschaftlichen Belegen.

"Es ist jetzt nicht die Zeit seine Fresse zu halten [...]" (D.I.S Ding)

Der 2. Teil ist hier zu sehen:
youtu.be/TqzEaL3yC9c?si=tgXzQ2

Es lohnt sich, das ganze Video bis zum Ende zu sehen.

#rituellegewalt #falsememory #SatanicPanic #sexuellermissbrauch #kindesmissbrauch #DissoziativeIdentitätsstörung #DIS #Trauma

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2023-07-01

... cont'd 1/5

Noam Chomsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Cho
* American intellectual known for work in linguistics, political activism, social criticism

Commen: poss. relates to:

* QAnon (psy-ops prototyping / testing?) - adopted by many on faith alone: i.e. proto-religion
* ongoing culture wars / identity politics / social engineering

I discuss memory/false memory on slide 14 (use L/R arrow keys to navigate; content fades in):
persagen.com/html/intro_01.htm

2023-06-21

So I saw a beautiful #butterfly right before jumping in the car to pick up my daughter. It flew away before I could snap a picture but 10 minutes later I drew a picture of it to try and look it up once we got home.
Once we were home we quickly found it in a nearby tree and eventually even managed to get a picture... 🫣
#EyeWitness #EyeWitnessTestimony #FalseMemory #Justice #Experiment
(maybe this is a different butterfly too? Makes my point even more.)

The picture I drew, it's a black butterfly with two red spots (I was sure of) and two yellow dots that I wasn't sure of.An actual black butterfly with multiple white dots where I though red dots were and a giant orange circle on its back.
Irritationshintergrund🍑threecoloured@skeptics.social
2023-05-16

Spannender Vortrag von Aileen Oeberst
Gedächtnis und Wirklichkeit - Falsche Erinnerungen und ihre Folgen
#Podcast #Kortizes #gbs #falsememory #vortrag #wissenschaft #psychologie
youtube.com/watch?v=Nq-2Rvqt-A

franziska_GrrrrFranziska_Grau
2023-05-16

Ich bin überzeugt dass viele Inhalte auf YouTube, wo denen Menschen über ihre psychischen Erkrankungen sprechen, bei anderen, die das ansehen und sich damit identifizieren, das Risiko für falsche Erinnerungen extrem erhöhen. Und ich denke, mein Kind gehört zu denen die betroffen sind. Diese "schreckliche Kindheit mit krassem Mobbing": niemand der alten Schulfreund*innen weiß etwas davon.

Prisma System (DM open)prismasystem@det.social
2023-04-29
2023-04-11

False memories are recollections of events that did not happen or happened differently from how they are remembered. False memories can have serious consequences, such as affecting eyewitness testimony, creating false accusations, or altering personal identity. A new study has found that false memories can be formed in as little as 8 seconds, depending on the type of memory and the context.

#FalseMemory #MemoryResearch #Psychology

sciencealert.com/your-brain-ca

2023-02-25

#Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.

The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.

#RationalWiki #falsememory
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confabul

Elizabeth Loftus portrait photography. She is smiling with pursed lips.
2023-02-23
2023-02-23
The Skeptic magazineTheSkeptic@mas.to
2023-01-11

After 30 years, the British False Memory Society is (not) set to close
by Chris French @chrisfrench

Since 1993, the British False Memory Society has been supporting parents accused of abuse via memories apparently 'recovered' during psychotherapy

skeptic.org.uk/2023/01/after-3

#FalseMemory #Skeptic #CriticalThinking #Psychology #Regression

Irritationshintergrund🍑threecoloured@skeptics.social
2022-11-23

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