We have an intuition that the brain takes in reality, like a video camera and then it stores it. Do you know why we assume that? We assume that because a psychologist told us to assume that. There are a lot of things that we now realize are misconceptions are taught, but that science itself corrected.
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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