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Started by Lin Chen (@linchen_cog) ·

the Monopoly man doesn't have a monocle and I'm not ok

There's a 2022 study on the 'visual Mandela effect': people consistently misremember specific details of famous images (Pikachu's tail, the Monopoly man's monocle) in the same wrong way, even when they've seen the real thing many times. Then Loftus, and how easily memories get edited after the fact.

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  1. “monopoly man monocle mandela effect” (google.com)
  2. “visual mandela effect study 2022” (google.com)
  3. False memory (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Elizabeth Loftus (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Misinformation effect (en.wikipedia.org)

    the 1974 car crash study: asking how fast cars 'smashed' instead of 'hit' raised people's speed estimates

  6. Lost in the mall technique (en.wikipedia.org)

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