The Mandela Effect and the Psychology of False Memory

This episode examines how collective misremembering arises from cognitive biases, social reinforcement, and neural reconstruction processes, while also considering why such phenomena often ignite speculation about simulated reality. We review established psychological experiments and philosophical arguments to understand what false memories reveal—and what they do not—about our experience of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices