Some of the interviewees initially said they didn’t remember the incident, but upon being questioned again, they corrected themselves. They then reconstructed an entire scene from nothing, enriching it with detail: they described the stores they saw while looking for their mom, the old lady who helped them, their fear, and the subsequent crying fit. After the participants repeated their story a few times, the false memory the psychologists had planted solidified in their minds, mixing with memories of real events.
