r/MandelaEffect • u/Negative_Law_8509 • 1d ago

Discussion Interview about the Mandela Effect

Hello everyone. I am currently taking a course in college called Anthropology of Conspiracies. For my final project, I decided to study the Mandela Effect. I am very new to the conspiracy and was hoping that I could interview someone who is quite experienced in this theory. Thank you very much, please feel free to pm me!

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u/EpicJourneyMan Mandela Historian 22h ago

[MOD] It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a phenomenon that has a lot of theoretical explanations that really can’t be proven because it is entirely based on human memory.

Feel free to use ModMail to ask if anyone on the Mod Team is interested as well.

We’ve had quite a few of our moderators and subscribers interviewed in the past, so you are likely to get some favorable responses.

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u/WhimsicalSadist 1d ago

The Mandela Effect isn't a conspiracy theory. You should probably look for people to interview at r/conspiracy

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

It isn’t, but the explanations some people come up with (shifting timelines etc) most definitely are

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u/ipostunderthisname 20h ago

How is shifting timelines a plot by a group of people to do something in secret?

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u/Ohiostatehack 1d ago

Just to be clear, Mandela Effect itself is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a phenomena about mass misremembering. It ventures into conspiracy when some of the explanations but the ME itself is not a conspiracy.

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u/EpicJourneyMan Mandela Historian 22h ago

When I did my interview with the BBC one of the contributors was cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman who suggested that it was a “social contagion”.

It’s a really well produced radio episode that I think is worth a listen:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pdy0f