Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memories and photos both can misrepresent the past. Westend61 via Getty Images In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder ...

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"I like to think about memory as akin to a Wikipedia page. You can go in there and edit it. But so can other people." – Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Buried Scene from "Buried" Source: Courtesy of SHOWTIME In ...

There has been, and continues to be, disagreement among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals regarding the reliability of repressed or recovered memories. Many ...

Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the central figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, was convicted after a 27-year-old man tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of ...

Belknap, 420 pp., $35 AT THE END of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud–ever anxious to present an overarching, universal explanation for mental unrest–suggested that “repressed memories” of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Fueling the debate over the controversial psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia, or repressed memory, Brown University political scientist Ross Cheit ...

In 1969, 8-year-old Susan Nason of Foster City, California, went to bring a pair of gym shoes to a classmate who had left them at school, and never came back. A few weeks later, her body was found ...

So Memory can step around -- across. . . . Emily Dickinson wrote those lovely words sometime in the middle of the 19th century, probably after a love affair broke her heart. Over the next century and ...

Harvey Weinstein‘s attorneys are seeking to call an expert on “recovered memories” at his trial on rape and sexual assault charges. The defense has filed a motion asking to call Deborah Davis, a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...