How would you recommend reforming or changing the criminal justice system? We for one record all interviews with suspects and with eyewitnesses from the first time we interact with someone. That at the very least minimizes what's called contamination, which means that you're not picking up what other people are saying to you. And so that's one thing we should all be doing as much as possible.
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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