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Asparagus, a Love Story:

Healthier Eating Could Be a False Memory Away

Utshav Tiwari

East Central University

Asparagus, a Love Story:

Healthier Eating Could Be Just a False Memory Away

Summary

The article is about false memory. The researchers are trying to find out the effect of planting positive false memory in an individual. The authors of the article are; Cara Laney from University of Leicester, Erin K. Morris from University of California, Irvine, Daniel M. Bernstein from Kwantlen University College and University of Washington, Briana M. Wakefield from University of Washington, Elizabeth F. Lotus from University of California, Irvine.

Before the experiment was conducted researchers had been able to implant false detail for actual event and even entirely different events and study the effect of those belief in an individual. But those events were only accounted for a false negative belief. For example, In one study ( Bernstein, Laney, Morris, & Loftus, 2005b) the subjects were given a false feedback that they got sick as children after eating either dill pickles or hard-boiled eggs. A sustainable minority of subjects believed the feedback. The believers were those people whose confidence in occurrence of the false event increased after the false suggestion and who reported a specific belief or memory. These people who fell for the false belief had shown some consequences in regard to the food such as reduced self-reported willingness to eat pickles or eggs. There were also avoidance of closely related food such as reducing the use of pickle slices in salads, hambu...

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...t happened in their life among which was the Lost in the mall event which was a false event. The subjects were then told to remember those events. Later when the subjects were asked about those events reported to remember the event and described the event. The subjects described the false event more briefly than the true one. Later when the subjects were told that one of the event was false, some (5 out of 24 subjects) failed to identify being lost in the mall as a false event. From this article the writer tried to show that false memory can be implanted on people through false data.

Loftus is currently working at University of Washington and University of California, Irvine in the field of psychology and law. Her university websites are www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/loftus (University of California, Irvine) and faculty.washington.edu/eloftus (University of Washington).