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Originally Posted By: Wendy Jthanks for the great feed back. It's strange because I know a person who practise such behaviour to the point of being quite slanderious toward people. The scary thing is she ends up believing her own lies. Go figure!!!!
Sounds positively scandalacious. In psychology and medicine, the term confabulation is used to describe the process of inventing fabrications that one believes to be true. Several dictionaries mention "...to fill gaps in one's memory.". One medical example is a test for confabulation in which a physician holds his hands with his fingers and thumbs pinched together as if he were holding a string. He then asks the subject, what color is the string? One who is confabulating might name a color rather than simply say that there is no string.
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