The Seven Sins of Memory

According to Daniel Schacter, there are seven fundamental ways in which our memories fail us. Schacter elaborates in his book of the same name, and now PsyBlog has produced a series of articles on each of these ‘seven sins of memory’:

  1. Transience
  2. Absent-Mindedness
  3. Blocking
  4. Misattribution
  5. Suggestibility
  6. Bias
  7. Persistence

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