What happened here was likely misattribution, or what the researchers called a source monitoring error.

这里发生的能是错误归因，或是研究人员所说的源监控错误。

Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.

即使没有引导性的询问，张冠李戴导致错误的目击证词。

This study was small, but the authors suggest this kind of misattribution has a big role to play in the creation of false memories.

这项研究规模很小，但作，这种错误归因在产生错误记忆方面起到了很大的作用。

If we don't catch these misattributions, these women can just fade away from our consciousness, and we'll never know the truth about their story and about our history.

如果我们没抓住这些张冠李戴，这些女性就能从我们的意识中逐渐消失，而我们将永远不知道她们人生的和人类历史的真相。

Two psychologists in Vancouver, Canada, did a study on misattribution of arousal, which is when people make mistaken inferences about what is causing them to feel the way they do.

加拿大温哥华的两名理学家研究过「生理激发的错误归因」，就是说人对于自己的理感觉原因会有错误的推理。