Asparagus, A Love Story: Healthier Eating May Just Be a False MemoryUtshav TiwariEast Central UniversityAsparagus, A Love Story: Healthier Eating it could just be a false memorySummaryThe article is about false memories. Researchers are trying to discover the effect of implanting false positive memories in an individual. The authors of the article are; Cara Laney of the University of Leicester, Erin K. Morris of the University of California, Irvine, Daniel M. Bernstein of Kwantlen University College and the University of Washington, Briana M. Wakefield of the University of Washington, Elizabeth F. Lotus of 'University of California, Irvine Before the experiment was conducted, researchers had been able to implant false details for real events and even completely different events and study the effect of those beliefs in an individual. But those events were just a negative false belief. For example, in one study (Berstein, Laney, Morris, & Loftus, 2005b) subjects were given false feedback that they had become ill as children after eating dill pickles or hard-boiled eggs. A sustainable minority of subjects believed the feedback. Believers were those people whose confidence in the occurrence of the false event increased after the false suggestion and who reported a specific belief or memory. These people who had fallen for the false belief had shown some consequences regarding food, such as a reported reduced willingness to eat pickles or eggs. There was also avoidance of closely related foods such as reducing the use of pickle slices in salads, hambu...... middle of paper......t happened in their life including the event Lost in the mall which was a fake event. The subjects were then told to remember those events. Later, when subjects were asked about those events, they reported remembering the event and describing it. The subjects described the false event more briefly than the real one. Later, when the subjects were told that one of the events was false, some (5 of 24 subjects) failed to identify getting lost in the mall as a false event. From this article the author tried to prove that false memory can be implanted in people through false data. Loftus is currently working at the University of Washington and the University of California, Irvine in the fields of psychology and law. Its university websites are www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/loftus (University of California, Irvine) and faculty.washington.edu/eloftus (University of Washington).