Memory conformity research is closely related to work on the Misinformation effect and Lost in the mall technique. Memory conformity, also known as social contagion of memory, refers to the phenomenon where memories or information reported by others influences an individual and is incorporated into the individual's memory. Memory conformity is a memory error due to both social influences and cognitive mechanisms. Social contamination of false memory can be exemplified in prominent situations involving social interactions, such as eyewitness testimony. Research on memory conformity has revealed that such suggestibility and errors with source monitoring has far reaching consequences, with important legal and social implications. Although sometimes it is the Mandela Effect .
Memory conformity research is closely related to work on the Misinformation effect and Lost in the mall technique. Memory conformity, also known as social contagion of memory, refers to the phenomenon where memories or information reported by others influences an individual and is incorporated into the individual's memory. Memory conformity is a memory error due to both social influences and cognitive mechanisms. Social contamination of false memory can be exemplified in prominent situations involving social interactions, such as eyewitness testimony. Research on memory conformity has revealed that such suggestibility and errors with source monitoring has far reaching consequences, with important legal and social implications. Memory conformity is closely related to the Mandela effect which surfaces after one learns misleading information following the experience of an event (e.g., encoding of study materials in the lab or the experience of a real world event) .
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Although sometimes it is the Mandela Effect
Memory conformity is closely related to the Mandela effect which surfaces after one learns misleading information following the experience of an event (e.g., encoding of study materials in the lab or the experience of a real world event)