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When collective testimony conflicts with personal memory

My neighbor testified that soldiers came to our village but I remember it differently and now I don't trust my own memory of what happened.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing versions of traumatic events can undermine one's confidence in their own experience and perception.

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