What are the differentiating characteristics of both real memory and false memory?

-- Viola Liu (sjsgirl22@yahoo.com), November 18, 2003

Answers

One of the classic symptoms is that false memories tend to have far less indcidental detail than real memories. (Ask questions like: What color of shirt was the person was wearing? What was the weather like?)

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), November 18, 2003.

There is some nice stuff on this in the most recent American Psychologist, awards issue.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), November 18, 2003.