(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Deepasri Prasad, Dartmouth College and Wilma Bainbridge, University of Chicago (THE ...

If you ever thought you were going bonkers by believing some things existed when, in reality, they didn’t, you might find peace in knowing you’re not alone.

It's a hyphen. How certain can someone really be that they saw it? This-one-is-probably-nonsense. It's one letter. There's a famous commercial (from the '70s) where a kid even spells it out for folks.

The Mandela effect refers to the experience of a false memory that is shared by many people. In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, ...