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Originally Posted by Jaeger
I will tell you this though, eyewitness accounts are not as reliable as you think, I have a psych degree and we did a lot of study on that, people's memories can be influenced by suggestive language and other things after the events, in one study i think it was 1/3 of people were convinced to believe they were abused as a child even though they were not. I cant remember all the studies now, but keep in mind eyewitness accounts are not as reliable as you might think.
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I also have a psych degree, and working on a masters in psych.
The phenomenon you are referring to is known as a schema. It is the method that our minds use to integrate and reconstruct a framework of knowledge based on assumptions about people, objects and events. The likelihood that thousands of people would all have the exact same schema is virtually impossible. Please show me one eye witness that says they saw something other than a plane.