["Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 4, July/August 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nWar‐related autobiographical memories are often vivid, emotionally consequential, and embedded in social and public narratives. This study examined nonbelieved memories (NBMs) in 146 Chinese participants with self‐reported war‐related experiences. Participants completed an online questionnaire assessing war‐memory characteristics, social and media influences, and memories they once accepted as real but later came to doubt. Among valid respondents, 33.6% reported a war‐related NBM. After doubt emerged, belief in occurrence declined from 6.57 to 3.61 and plausibility from 5.80 to 3.91, whereas recollection changed little, from 5.67 to 5.33. Reported reasons for belief reduction included plausibility concerns, internal memory features or contradictory evidence, social feedback, media‐related information, broader memory doubts, and, less often, personal motivation. Media discrepancies formed part of the context for reinterpretation but did not directly explain belief reduction. Disbelief was associated with both emotional relief and disruption.\n"]