"A false memory is, you could think of it as an extreme example of the general phenomenon of memory distortion."Įven though the cover art on the Kazaam poster - a genie and a kid on a purple background - is eerily similar to what some Shazaam-truthers claim to remember from the Sinbad film, true believers maintain they were two separate movies that coincidentally came out around the same time.
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It's well known that this can happen."īut believers like Upton insist the Sinbad movie was real - and that they are not getting confused by Kazaam. "There are many experiments where researchers have deliberately created false memories. People who "have some kind of memory in there" are more likely to "combine the information," Chabris said. That Shaq movie could have planted a seed, pieces of a memory that "reconstructed" themselves into a false memory of Shazaam when people heard about a supposed-Sinbad genie movie. "Did people invent this Sinbad thing out of whole cloth? Of course they didn't, there's something very similar that did exist," Chabris said. This seems to have all the hallmarks of a simple memory distortion that results in the construction of a false memory."Ĭhabris thinks that many of the people who insist that they saw Shazaam may be confusing it with Kazaam , a 1996 film that starred Shaquille O'Neal as a genie who helps a child locate his father. "This S hazaam thing is a fairly simple example, or at least starts, with a fairly simple example of exactly that. "All memories, when we retrieve them, are constructed out of stuff that's been stored and is in our minds somehow," Chabris said. the natural state of memory is to continually change over time." "A false memory is, you could think of it as an extreme example of the general phenomenon of memory distortion," Christopher Chabris, co-author of The Invisible Gorilla and a professor of psychology who has researched false memories, said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
And the hordes of people who say they've seen it could just be experiencing a collective false memory. The only problem is, much to the frustration of everyone who claims to remember it, there's no evidence that Shazaam was ever made. and they try and wish for their dad to fall in love again after their mother's passing, and Sinbad can't.
"I remember two children accidentally summoning a genie. "I remember the name of the film as Shazaam," Upton said.
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