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Ever work on a term paper and wind up subconsciously including some of that research word-for-word in your final draft? You may be suffering from cryptomnesia, a form of memory sloppiness that’s a lot ...

The human rights we enjoy today were won via the struggle of minorities who refused to accept the status quo – yet we have a curious form of psychological amnesia about that. As I was researching this ...

An intriguing development on the Nabokov front, a crypto-scandal widely reported in Europe, but not much here: Lolita is causing An intriguing development on the Nabokov front, a crypto-scandal widely ...

The charge of plagiarism carries a special sort of shame. Take the case of Kaavya Viswanathan, the young writer whose 2006 debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, contained ...

We know that people make up false memories if prompted. But since our brain never stops being a jerk, we can also convert real memories into things we believe we imagined. Cryptomnesia can strike via ...

“What have you been working on today?” she asked. “Oh it’s a piece about a type of ‘cryptomnesia’, a technical term from psychology.” She frowned. I leaned forward and launched into a mansplainer.