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The article “Creating False Memories” by Elizabeth F. Loftus is a very interesting article. Within it, it explains the different in which one can influence the long term memory of the brain. The article portrays many different instances in which people started to believe that they were the victims of traumatic events, although they actually weren’t. False memories were actually implanted into many of the subjects’ heads, and some of them were influenced so much that they were actually lead to believe that these events happened. Many different experiments were conducted to investigate this phenomenon. The first experiment tried to implant a scenario in which the subjects were made to believe that they w