He asked his students the day after the explosion to write down their memories of what had occurred, what they were wearing, where they were, what the News coverage was like on TV, basically everything they could remember about their day and the event. Three years down the road, he asked those same students to write down their memories a second time. Astonishingly, over ninety percent of the reports differed from what the students had previously reported three years earlier. One student was shown her report that she had written the day after the event and she shuddered in disbelief as I had upon releasing that I had misremembered the name of my beloved childhood story book characters. After she read her reports on the event three years earlier she said, “I know that’s my handwriting, but I couldn’t possibly have written
He asked his students the day after the explosion to write down their memories of what had occurred, what they were wearing, where they were, what the News coverage was like on TV, basically everything they could remember about their day and the event. Three years down the road, he asked those same students to write down their memories a second time. Astonishingly, over ninety percent of the reports differed from what the students had previously reported three years earlier. One student was shown her report that she had written the day after the event and she shuddered in disbelief as I had upon releasing that I had misremembered the name of my beloved childhood story book characters. After she read her reports on the event three years earlier she said, “I know that’s my handwriting, but I couldn’t possibly have written