Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, And Societies Reconstruct The Past

20021016d2000 M. Y0frey50 Ba

ISBN:

0674566769

Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression - these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies.