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This is how we fool ourselves

"People are fooling themselves more often than they think" explains FOR 2812 philosopher Albert Newen in an interview with the Westdutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ).

Read full article (German only) here.


The research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The research unit studies the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying scenario construction in episodic memory. We employ and integrate approaches from Philosophy, Psychology, and Experimental and Computational Neuroscience.

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