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Also question is, what percentage of memories are false?

Simply by using a magic memory mix of misinformation, imagination and repetition, 70 percent of my sample came to create a memory that they committed a crime, and 77 percent created false memories of other kinds of highly emotional events.

Secondly, what causes false memory syndrome? False memory syndrome (FMS) is caused by memories of a traumatic experience--most frequently CSA--which are objectively false, but in which the person strongly believes. Personality factors often play a role in the development of FMS.

Furthermore, can false memories be created?

Factors that can influence false memory include misinformation and misattribution of the original source of the information. Existing knowledge and other memories can also interfere with the formation of a new memory, causing the recollection of an event to be mistaken or entirely false.

What is it called when you have false memories?

false memory. a distorted recollection of an event or, most severely, recollection of an event that never actually happened. Also called illusory memory; paramnesia; pseudomemory.