How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect |Wired.com

How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect | Wired Science | Wired.com: "our love of stories comes with a serious side-effect: like all good narrators, we tend to forsake the facts when they interfere with the plot. We’re so addicted to the anecdote that we let the truth slip away until, eventually, those stories we tell again and again become exercises in pure fiction."