Scientists just uncovered a surprising illusion in how we remember time

Scientists just uncovered a surprising illusion in how we remember time

When something is repeated often, we tend to remember it better. But a new study published in Psychological Science has found that we may also mistakenly believe that repeated experiences happened longer ago than they actually did. Across six experiments involving hundreds of adults, researchers found that when an image or piece of information was presented multiple times, people consistently judged its first appearance as being further in the p…