False memories: Did you lock the door or just imagine it?

"Psychological research has shown various ways "false memories" are created, such as through the power of suggestion or through vivid imagination. Now scientists studying imagination have found that people who watched a video of someone else doing a simple action often didn't remember and thought they had done it themselves when asked about it two weeks later. "This is a completely new type of false memory," says Gerald Echterhoff, a psychology professor at the University of Muenster in...