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People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

www.psychologicalscience.org People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

Lab-based research shows that adults can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that as teens they perpetrated crimes that never actually occurred.

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  • From personal experience, depends on brain development but I don't see it as possible, intellectualism/Environment/Lifestyle will play key roles.

    Edit:
    Okays there are red flags in the comments that should be addressed:
    Beware of representational trauma & the dissociation that builds up from it.
    Be sceptical of those that reinforce those patterns, they are a precursor for someone else pursuit of power.

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