Why shouldn't you trust your memory?
If you have ever been in a relationship, I guess you would have faced the “You said that”, “No I didn’t say that” kind of situation. At the end who is right and who is wrong? Both of them are right in their own memory terms. The following will give you the clarity. Seven crew members of the space shuttle Challenger were killed in the disaster on the morning of January 28 1986. Two psychologist Ulric Neisser and Nicole Harsch used this opportunity to conduct the experiment. Next day morning, they gave questionnaire to the students asking questions like where they have been when they heard the news, who were near them, who told them about the disaster and at what time they have heard about the disaster. Two and half years later, they asked the same students the same question about the disaster. When they compared two answers there was a lot of difference between the answers. In the next round, they called the students for the interview and the produced the two...