Psychological research into major historical events reveals that personal recollections of the September 11 terrorist attacks are often inaccurate, despite individuals feeling entirely confident in their memories. Known as “flashbulb memories,” recollections of where a person was, who they were with, and how they learned of the tragedy feel extraordinarily vivid. However, long-term studies show that these personal details alter substantially over time. The findings demonstrate that human memory functions not like a video recording, but as a reconstructive process subject to distortion from conversations, media coverage, and the passage of time.
- Flashbulb memories refer to vivid, highly detailed recollections of the moment someone learns about a shocking or emotionally intense event.
- Long-term studies tracking survivors and witnesses over decades found that details about their personal circumstances on 9/11 changed significantly between initial interviews and follow-ups.
- The largest drop in memory consistency typically occurs within the first year following the event, after which the revised memory stabilizes.
- While factual details about the attacks themselves often remain accurate, personal autobiographical details—such as who called or where one was standing—are frequently distorted.
- Despite objective declines in accuracy, individuals consistently retain high levels of confidence that their recollections are completely correct.
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Jane Standley
How about BBC turning off the comment sections when the AfD won? Pathetic, censorious, corporate propagandists.
How it is BBC. You take extremely sensitive topic, lying about it without borders and breaks and THEN asking people to be respectful in comments. You lost your reputation completely for me and many other people after your reports on 7th of October.
BBC accept my deepest disrespect.
Because it was a false leg attack that you [the BBC] participated in. The BBC had inside information about building 7; but they mishandled it by going live with the info way too early.
I remember when the BBC was a proper news channel. Was that an illusion too?
Don't wait until the November elections. Start anti-Trump protests. Trump must be removed from the White House. The fake war on Iran must end forever right now. Freedom and security must return to the entire world.
WTC 7…
Great job digging out a tragic event of the U.S. for your "memory" experiment. Why don't you cover how Japanese military riding bicycles wipe out the Royal Navy?
Why the unnecessary scanline effects to the archive image and the static backgrounds?
You know viewers may have photosensitive vision or epilepsy right?
I was in my mid-twenties at the time, whilst we had CRT TV's and plasma TV's, it certainly wasn't the 70's. The use of effects should only be used if necessary, not because you think it looks fitting for the era (which it doesn't).
Nothing to see here… the Epstein class with Israel and Saudi Arabia definitely weren’t involved… 🤦♂️
what is this?, How memory works is still a not clear and still a big mystery. I do remember what I was doing that day and I can confirm that asking 4 other persons that were with me and they agree. BBC you are not doing your homeworks. "we still lack a single, complete theory explaining how billions of neurons form and hold every detailed"
Jets hit blindings, blindings fall down what else is there to remember lol
Why won't the cowardly BBC comment section moderator allow me to respond to comments on my own post? Anyone who has ever censored another person has ALWAYS been on the wrong side of history.
How are my memories wrong? I watched it happen live, and can match it to the footage.
Tf is we? It literally happened to my country we know what happened, we lied about it, we waged war for more than 20 years over it, and now we’re here.
What a weird video wtf are you talking about
i remember it in every detail like it was yesterday .
im from europe . that day i wake up close to noon . becouse i was always in a late shift system .
zapt on the television . and with my sleepy head i was watching the fire in the first tower without knowing it was live , i ligit tought i was watching a documentryshow on discovery about special effects in movies or something .
while i was watching i seen the second plane go in the other tower . and i was like damn that are some special effects….. then i zapped to another channel . same image , another… same image nearly all the tv channels where live broadcasting .
when i stil didnt know what was happening i started to make me ready for my late shift again , during my 15 min driving towards the job i was nearly allone on the road what felt damn weird becouse it was afternoon .
my job was forklift driver in a IKEA store . that day only a handfull of customers showed up .
this was ligit one of the most scary feelings i had i was even afraid . im in belgium if US says a we say b ( not with the current office clown ofc )
it was unimageneable that the US could get hit on their own soil .
in the following days all the video's from the people jumping for their lives . the eyewitnes reports ….. it was al unreal …. that day life came to a standstill for some time .altough it was happening on the other side of the globe
the younger people that are making fun of the event or even start to joke about it … i start to die a litle again inside when i hear them .
my condolences for everyone that has someone lost there that day 🫡🫡🫡🫡
greetings from belgium 🫡
🤡 news
We all know who's behind it.
I have a recording of that day for our school play we were staying behind filming . Interviews from the news talking about explosions and many other things . Also the dancing Israelis or tower 7 didn’t happen either
BBC is less trustworthy than Joe Biden's memory LOL
We all know that building 7 was already set up for demolition so we also know 1 and 2 were. No matter how much you want us to “forget”. Also, Bush misremembered because he is an idiot. Nothing more to that.
Lies lies,lies, lies, tell the truth !!!
The object that hit tower two wasn't a jet!
I remember when the BBC reported building 7 had collapsed 25 minutes before it actually collapsed. The building was still standing as the reporter made the claim.