The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect

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The Mandela Effect is, in recent years, one of those curious cases of false memories (Maswood and Rajaram, 2018) that have become very popular on the internet at the beginning of the 21st century. It is an effect, which is caused by things like misinformation or bad association of memories, such as remembering products of pirate brands or counterfeits, which are sometimes very similar to the original ones, such articles have been around for some time now Throughout history, many copies of different products have been made, from art to consumer items and sometimes, they only vary in very small nuances compared to the originals (BBC, 2016; Charney, 2015; El Motor, 2017; Thomas, 2018 ), another example, may be referring to some films, in which people have memories associated with some parodies or remakes, productions that have existed for a long time in the cinema (Delgado, 2016; Caviaro, 2010). This phenomenon is curious, since different groups of people often remember different things in a different way from how they actually happened, although there are also some conspiracy theories, such as, for example, the one that says we live in a parallel dimension. This curious effect, takes its name from the death of President Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013, all started when several people said they remembered that Mandela ceased to exist in the 1980s and, a paranormal investigator named Fiona Broome (Ulloa E., 2017) was responsible for popularizing this effect (Miguel Trula, 2016). The truth is that the confusion is given by another political activist named Steve Biko, that, like Mandela, he belonged to the movement against segregation in South Africa, he died in 1977 (Ceballos, 2018) and this is the funeral that people remember . Whatever the explanation, it is a phenomenon that is still interesting and sites like Alternate Memories (2019) are responsible for collecting such cases.

Real data	Mandela effect
1) The Starbucks Mermaid has a star in her crown	1) The Starbucks Mermaid doesn't have a star in her crown
2) Abraham Lincoln was not a devout Christian	2) Abraham Lincoln was a devout Christian
3) Little Richard is alive in 2016	3) Little Richard died in 2016
4) The Bermuda triangle is no more dangerous than other similar areas	4) The Bermuda Triangle is extremely dangerous
5) 7 planes were involved in the 9/11 attack in New York, United States of America	5) 3 planes were involved in the 9/11 attack in New York, United States of America

Referencias / References:

Alternate Memories. (2019). Alternate Memories. Recuperado de https://www.alternatememories.com/

BBC. (2016). La fascinación de los chinos por los productos falsos: algo más que un gran negocio.
Recuperado de https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-38406955

Caviaro, J.L. (2010). "Los diez mejores remakes". En Espinof. Recuperado de https://www.espinof.com/proyectos/los-diez-mejores-remakes

Charney, N. (2015). Los secretos de dos grandes maestros de la falsificación. En BBC. Recuperado de https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/06/150604_vert_cul_finde_falsificadores_obras_arte_finde_yv

Delgado, J. (2016). "Las 15 mejores películas de humor absurdo y parodias". En Hobbyconsolas. https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/reportajes/hot-shots-vida-brian-15-mejores-peliculas-humor-absurdo-70320

El Motor. (2017). ¿Qué modelos de coche plagian estas 13 copias chinas?. Recuperado de https://motor.elpais.com/actualidad/las-copias-chinas-mas-llamativas/

Maswood, R. and Rajaram, S. (2018). Social Transmission of False Memory in Small Groups and Large Networks. Top Cogn Sci. doi:10.1111/tops.12348

Miguel Trula, E. (2016). "El Efecto Mandela: o cómo la sociedad recuerda momentos que en realidad nunca han ocurrido". En Magnet. Recuperado de https://magnet.xataka.com/en-diez-minutos/el-efecto-mandela-o-como-la-sociedad-recuerda-momentos-que-en-realidad-nunca-han-ocurrido

Thomas, D. (2018). "Marcas falsas: cómo las copias se comen el mercado y cómo deberían protegerse las empresas". En BBC. Recuperado de https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-46324568

Ulloa E., F. (2017). "Efecto Mandela: el fenómeno de recordar cosas inexistentes que se ha vuelto viral". En El Definido. Recuperado de https://www.eldefinido.cl/actualidad/mundo/9023/Efecto-Mandela-el-fenomeno-de-recordar-cosas-inexistentes-que-se-ha-vuelto-viral/

How to cite this article:

Nocetti, F.A. (2019). "The Mandela Effect". In NabbuBlog. Retrieved from http://nabbublog.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-mandela-effect.html