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===Personal life effects===
'''Personal life effects''' refer to the recall and belief in events as declared by family members or friends for having actually happened.<ref name="Laney">Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (2010). Truth in emotional memories. In B.H. Bornstein (Ed.), Emotion and the Law (pp. 157–183). Leicester: Springer Science + Business Media</ref> Personal life effects are largely based on suggestive influences from external sources, such as family members or a therapist.<ref name="Loftus">Loftus, E.L. (1997). Creating false memories. ''Scientific American, 277'', 70–75</ref> Other influential sources may include media or literature stories which involve details that are believed to have been experienced or witnessed, such as a natural disaster close to where one resides, or a situation that is common and could have occurred, such as getting lost as a child. Personal life effects are most powerful when claimed to be true by a family member, and even more powerful when a secondary source confirms the event having happened.<ref name="Loftus"/>
Personal life effects are believed to be a form of source confusion, in which the individual cannot recall where the memory is coming from.<ref name="Wade">Wade, K.A., & Garry, M. (2005). Strategies for verifying false autobiographical memories. ''American Journal of Psychology, 118''(4), 587–602</ref> Therefore, without being able to confirm the source of the memory, the individual may accept the false memory as true. Three factors may be responsible for the implantation of false [[Autobiographical memory|autobiographical memories]]. The first factor is time. As time passes, memories fade. Therefore, source confusion may result due to time delay.<ref name="Loftus"/> The second factor is the imagination inflation effect. As the amount of imagination increases, so does one’s familiarity for the contents of the imagination. Thus, source confusion may also occur due to the individual confusing the source of the memory for being true, when in fact it was imaginary.<ref name="Wade"/> Lastly, social pressure to recall the memory may affect the individual’s belief in the false memory. For example, with increase in pressure, the individual may lower their criteria for validating a memory, and come to accept a [[false memory]] for being true.<ref name="Wade"/> Personal life effects can be extremely crucial to recognize in cases of [[Recovered memory|recovered memories]], especially those of abuse, in which the individual may have been led to believe they had been abused as a child by a therapist during psychological therapy, when in fact they had not been. Personal life effects can also be important in witness testimonies, in which suggestions from authorities may incorrectly implant memories regarding witnesses a particular detail about a crime (see the '''Childhood Abuse''' and '''Eye Witness Testimony''' sections below). ==Memory error relating to food==
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