The seven sins of memory. Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

D. Schacter

DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.54.3.182

Corpus ID: 14882268

The seven sins of memory. Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

@article{Schacter1999TheSS,
  title={The seven sins of memory. Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.},
  author={D. Schacter},
  journal={The American psychologist},
  year={1999},
  volume={54 3},
  pages={
          182-203
        }
}

D. Schacter

Published 1999

Psychology, Medicine

The American psychologist

Though often reliable, human memory is also fallible. This article examines how and why memory can get us into trouble. It is suggested that memory's misdeeds can be classified into 7 basic "sins": transience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. The first three sins involve different types of forgetting, the next three refer to different types of distortions, and the final sin concerns intrusive recollections that are difficult to forget. Evidence… CONTINUE READING

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