Human memories ‘are unreliable because of tendency for complete storylines’

They said this is because people prefer stories with a clear beginning, middle and end

Our memories are unreliable because we like predictable stories, scientists say (K-PHOTOS/Alamy/PA)

Human memories are unreliable because of our tendency to construct complete storylines, according to scientists.

Experiments by researchers at the University of Sussex suggest people often misremember how certain events end, sometimes even creating memories of incidents that never happened.