When Can We Trust Our Memory?

The aim of this project is to review the literature on memory errors and seek a multifaceted answer, in the light of theoretical and empirical studies, to the question of under which conditions our memory is reliable and under which conditions it is not. Following this comprehensive literature review and analysis, the findings have been turned into easily accessible items. These items aim to set out clearly, in a language that people outside the field of psychology can easily understand, when memory can and cannot be trusted, and what is myth and what is scientific fact about memory.

The outputs of the project are expected to be of interest to psychology students and faculty members, students aiming to improve their academic performance, teachers, professionals in occupations that require decisions based on memory output, and, in general, individuals in society who want to know when they can trust their memory.

This website has been prepared for educational purposes as one of the outputs of project no. BAP.2021-01.22, supported by the Bahçeşehir University Scientific Research Projects Commission. We thank Bahçeşehir University for its financial support.

"Why do we find it acceptable to say that our memory is terrible,
but not that we are astonishingly stupid?"
Alan Baddeley et al. (2015)