# False memories – false claims made? ![](/files/-MP8zZd-AMgCg_i7EtDF) As recently as 2014, [Elizabeth Loftus](http://sap.sagepub.com/content/43/2/137) wrote that as well as being easily created, false memories could also last a long time. However, the latest research questions whether false memories are indeed as easy to induce as psychologists like Loftus would have us believe. [Brewin and Andrews](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3220/abstract;jsessionid=C0A9581057FF15FDE3B2C7038CBBC8C4.f03t04) conducted a meta-analysis of the research literature on false memories and concluded that “susceptibility to false memories of childhood events appears more limited than has been suggested.” Brewin and Andrews are cautious in their conclusions, suggesting that even though susceptibility to false memories seems lower than previously suggested and therefore false memories themselves less common. Nonetheless, this has huge implications for the repressed memories of abuse that were claimed in court to be false memories. It is just one more example of how psychological thought is always advancing. *This post was inspired by Dr Laura Swash.* --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://guide.fariaedu.com/psychology-teacher-articles/cognitive-approach-1/reliability-of-cognitive-processes/false-memories-false-claims-made.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.