Misattribution occurs when you remember something correctly for the most part, but some detail, such as time or place or the person involved, isn't right. It also refers to when you think your thought ...

“We might like to think of our memory as an archivist that carefully preserves events, but sometimes it’s more like a storyteller.” From a psychology perspective, an important step in tackling fake ...

In Yasunari Kawabata's unsettling short story, Yumiura, a novelist receives an unexpected visit from a woman who says she knew him 30 years earlier. They met when he visited the town of Yumiura during ...