Falsification of History

We unconsciously rewrite our past beliefs and predictions to align with what we now know — memory is not a recording, it is a reconstruction shaped by current knowledge.

• People who voted for the losing candidate in an election later often 'remember' having expressed doubts about them.
• Former enthusiastic supporters of a failed business venture remember themselves as having raised concerns at the time.
• Couples in happy marriages reconstruct early difficulties as charming obstacles; unhappy couples reconstruct the same events as early warning signs they 'always knew' were there.