The Mandela Effect refers to widespread false memories that large numbers of people or a group of individuals believe. Memory is not a perfect recording of events that happened. It can change with time and with practice and priming.
source: Mandela Effect: Examples and explanation - MedicalNewsToday
The term was originated in 2009 by Fiona Broome, after she discovered that she, along with a number of others, believed that Nelson Mandela had died in the 1980s (when he actually died in 2013).
Some explanations
- False Memories: similar memories are associated with each other
- Confabulation: filling in gaps that are missing to make more sense of them
- Misleading Post-Event Information
- Priming: factors leading up to an event that affects perception
source: Mandela Effect Examples, Origins, and Explanations
More examples
- Mandela Effect Examples, Origins, and Explanations
- 15 Examples of the Mandela Effect Mental Floss
- 62 Examples Of The Mandela Effect That'll Make You Question Everything BuzzFeed (a lot of these examples are misspellings by marketeers that are autocorrected in memory)
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