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Still others propose that all types of false memories, including confabulation, fit into a general memory and executive function model. [27] In 2007, a framework for confabulation was proposed that stated confabulation is the result of two things: Problems with executive control and problems with evaluation.
Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War is a 1928 book by Arthur Ponsonby, [1] listing and refuting pieces of propaganda used by the Allied Forces (Russia, France, Britain and the United States) against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria).
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. [1]
If you think Mr. Monopoly wears a monocle or believe you’ve read “The Berenstein Bears” books, you might be experiencing the so-called Mandela Effect, or collective false memory.
This series came from a determination to understand why, and to explore how their way back from war can be smoothed. Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues.
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
Erwin Rommel's memory was used for post-war propaganda. After the war Wehrmacht officers and generals produced a slew of memoirs that followed the myth of the clean Wehrmacht. [77] Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian produced best-selling memoirs. [78] Guderian's memoirs contained numerous exaggerations, untruths and omissions.
The problem, he said, is that “war will break these values. “There is an inherent contradiction between the warrior code, how these guys define themselves, what they expect of themselves – to be heroes, the selfless servants who fight for the rest of us – and the impossibility in war of ever living up to those ideals. It cannot be done.