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Some of the previous posts remind me of a study once done where a university basically "implanted" false memories into their subjects.
From what I remember, the subjects watched a short video of a vehicle driving down the road. After watching the video, they were asked to fill out a short form involving the video. The very first question asked to approximate the speed of the vehicle when it was closest to the barn - however, there was no such barn in the video. However, once it had been established in the subject's minds, one of the latter questions asked them to describe the barn. The results were that an incredibly high percentage of subjects described the barn, I can't recall if it was very few or none at all that stated that there was no barn.
I think that the study was to show that people made extremely poor witnesses, and that police questioning techniques may actually destroy any actual remnants of memory that may have existed about the crime by phrasing their questions a certain way.
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