False Memories by Loftus and colleagues surveys experimental research demonstrating how suggestion and imagination can create vivid but inaccurate autobiographical memories. The authors show that memory is constructive and highly malleable, especially under authority pressure or hypnosis.
DSETI tracks this reference because Wargo cites Loftus in Time Loops and because Rekshan references Loftus extensively in discussions of hypnosis, regression, and the myth of repressed memory. This work is central to evaluating abduction testimony ethically.
For DSETI, False Memories provides empirical grounding for understanding how dreamlike narratives can become mistaken for literal events. It reinforces the importance of ethical hypnosis, grounded inquiry, and careful phenomenological work.
