Below is a summary from Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology of Deceit by Carles V. Ford, M.D.

Summary

Memory, on close examination, proves to be far more malleable than is generally recognized. A person’s recollection of an event is in a process of continual reconstruction, influenced by the personal relevance of new information, emotions, and current stimuli. Important among these influences are the suggestions of other people. Friends, acquaintances, police officers, attorneys, or psychotherapists can-by suggestion or leading questions-create new and confidently held memories in other people. This effect is enhanced if the person making the suggestion is perceived as an authority figure. Patients in psychotherapy may construct an inaccurate past. People who were eyewitnesses to a crime may remember things that ever occurred, and individuals may confess to crimes that they did not commit. An angry woman may falsely accuse a man of rape and then, after many repetitions, come to believe her own story. Political views and a specified view of history may be systematically foisted on a political prisoner, who is “reformed” in the process.

The bottom line is that one person’s self-deceptions or overt lies in become another person’s firmly held memories and “truth.”

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