In a study conducted by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues (Loftus, Coan and Pickrell, 1996), individuals were told about false events that had supposedly occurred when they were children. The results of this study indicated that:

people cannot be convinced of events that did not happen

only individuals with diagnosable disorders can be convinced of events that never happened

people can become quite convinced of events that never happened

people can become convinced of events that did not happen only during hypnosis or other dissociative states
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