When researchers manipulate images or introduce misinformation to suggest that people did things that they never did, the problem unsurprisingly becomes even worse. In 2002, research by Kimberly Wade and Maryanne Garry at the Victoria University of Wellington, along with their colleagues Don Read and Stephen Lindsay from the University of Victoria, showed24 that half of the participants in a study could come to recall details of a hot-air balloon ride they had never taken simply through being asked to remember the supposed event while being shown a photoshopped image of themselves in the
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