Misattribution occurs when you remember something correctly for the most part, but some detail, such as time or place or the person involved, isn't right. It also refers to when you think your thought ...

In Yasunari Kawabata's unsettling short story, Yumiura, a novelist receives an unexpected visit from a woman who says she knew him 30 years earlier. They met when he visited the town of Yumiura during ...

Schachter and Singer (1962) showed that people search the immediate environment for emotionally relevant cues to label and interpret unexplained physiological arousal. We investigated how ...

I'm in love. I can tell because my heart rate soars and I feel great when I'm near her. Of course, a lot of things can send my heart to palpitating, so how do I know it's love? In various studies, ...

As the famous British author once said, crediting people with things they never said says something about us. Howard and Lash’s summary of Lewis’s thinking and Warren’s rephrasing has become one of ...

“We might like to think of our memory as an archivist that carefully preserves events, but sometimes it’s more like a storyteller.” From a psychology perspective, an important step in tackling fake ...

Disinformation and misinformation have a growing impact on major socio-political events like the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war. The division of loyalties and sympathies affects people’s ability to think ...

A popular phrase warning against complacency has been misattributed to the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. Sign up here. There is no evidence, to date, that Burke said ...