Think you're remembering things correctly? Think again

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People misremember events within just seconds, often re-shaping their memories to fit their expectations, according to international researchers. 45 participants were shown a series of real or pseudo-letters and found that within seconds after the display disappeared, memory errors made with high confidence increased substantially. Errors made with high confidence mainly occurred for pseudo-to-real-letter memories, and much less often for real-to-pseudo-letter memories, which researchers say is because of our pre-existing expectations of what letters should look like.