We rely on our memory to complete pretty much every task that we set ourselves to. But even with our complete reliance on this cognitive capability, it's only able to accurately recall about 50% of the time... the rest of the time, we fill in the blanks in our memory with whatever makes sense.

The incredible thing about this cognitive self-deception is we're so good at it that we don't know the difference between an accurate memory and false recall.

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The Strange Situation (Ainsworth, 1969)

How Babies Form Attachments (Schaffer & Emerson, 1964)

Pavlov’s Dogs and How People Learn (Classical Conditioning)

Distinctions in Long Term Memory Tulving (1972)

Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)

Paltering: The Art of Lying Truthfully (Rogers et al., 2016)

Should teenagers work? (Steinberg et al., 1982)

On Being Sane In Insane Places (Rosenhan, 1973)

Atkinson & Shiffrin’s Multi Store Model of Memory

The Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo, 1972)

Bettelheim and Communal Parenting

Why did Milgram’s participants commit murder?

False recall and what it tells us about our memory

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment (1961)