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Implanting False Memories
Ethical concerns regarding the implantation of false memories includes the deception of the participants and the risk of potentially psychologically harming the participant. Making the subject believe something that never actually happened in their life is deception. False memories of this sort can also be seen as "source confusion" as stated by Shackter and Curran. Source confusion is defined as " Source confusion or unconscious transference, involves the misattribution of the source of a memory. For instance, an individual may recall seeing an event in person when in reality they only witnessed the event on television." This is also another form of deception when implanting these false memories is being done on
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