#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

7065.39 - 7088.339 Charan Ranganath

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this is exactly what they do. And so all these kind of foibles of human memory get magnified when you start to have social interactions. There's a whole literature on something called social contagion, which is basically when misinformation spreads like a virus. Like, you remember the same thing that I did, but I give you a little bit of wrong information.