Philosophy
The Epistemology of Memory and the Reliability of Recall
Quick fact
In 1974, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus showed that merely changing a verb in a question ('smashed' vs. 'hit') could make eyewitnesses later misremember the speed of a car crash and even invent broken glass that was never there.
Why this is interesting
You trust your memory every day—but what if the very act of remembering quietly rewrites the past?