Our memories are unreliable, limited and suggestible – and it’s a good thing too
- Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne

Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, is giving a speech to the masses from a palace balcony, surrounded by fellow party members. Comrade Vladimir Clementis thoughtfully places his fur hat on...