The linked book on confabulation suggests that those with confabulation conditions tended to display milder forms of the behavior in their pre-morbid states, i.e. that this is a trait with normal variation that could be studied. A study study of people with false memories of alien abduction found that tests of hypnotic suggestibility, schizotypy, and depressive symptoms were all related to false-memory formation.
Strong tests of confabulation tendency, matched with brain-scan and biochemical/genomic information in populations of normals, extreme ‘believers,’ and comparative rationalists, could be very interesting indeed.
The linked book on confabulation suggests that those with confabulation conditions tended to display milder forms of the behavior in their pre-morbid states, i.e. that this is a trait with normal variation that could be studied. A study study of people with false memories of alien abduction found that tests of hypnotic suggestibility, schizotypy, and depressive symptoms were all related to false-memory formation.
Strong tests of confabulation tendency, matched with brain-scan and biochemical/genomic information in populations of normals, extreme ‘believers,’ and comparative rationalists, could be very interesting indeed.