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Source Monitoring
“The idea feels familiar. Did you read it, imagine it, or hear it from someone?”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
Remembering a source is not retrieval of a perfect label: people infer origin from perceptual detail, context, and mental operations. Similar sources can be confused.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
Someone repeats a claim as news when it actually appeared in a hypothetical conversation days earlier.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
Confusing a source does not imply deliberate invention or make the remembered content entirely useless.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Store the link, author, and date beside a claim; familiarity alone does not preserve provenance.