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imagination inflation: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

imagining a childhood event increases confidence that it actually happened.

In cognitive psychology, imagination inflation refers to imagining a childhood event increases confidence that it actually happened. This meaning comes from Garry (1996) in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.[1]

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References

Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208-214. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212420

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