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CNN's John Sutter sat down with author David Frum to talk about his latest study on false memories. He found that people couldn't tell the difference between a true memory and a false one in two different studies done across Canada and the United Kingdom. "It just further reinforces this idea that false memory seemed to feel real to individuals," he said.

Our guest on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion, Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.

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