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Your childhood memories are probably less accurate than you think

January 28, 2014 by

How much detail can you reliably recall in your childhood memories? Actually very little, according to a new study with profound implications for our legal system.Writing in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, three UK-based psychologists asked 127 people to recall four of their earliest childhood memories about which they were absolutely certain.

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