Is There a Time Dilation?

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The month of March felt like it lasted a year, and then now it feels like we've hurtled through April. We're really bad at estimating how long things take, but more importantly, from memory of and parsing memory, what we're missing right now are called landmark events. And so where before you could have, you know, gone out on the weekends and gone to concerts, those would have been small landmarks. You now need to create something that's unusual or exceptional in your life to have something that sticks out in your memory.

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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