What Is the Connection Between Memory and Personality?

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i remember when blade runner 20 forty nine came out, i saw the movie three times in the theatre. I think that it is probably more fundamental the connection between memory and personality than we might like. shifting our memories does have a more profound influence on our personality than we assume. You can live yourself alse memories quite easily. It's impossible to look back at ten years ago and see it without god looking through the lens of to day. But even there, you're probably adjusting and adapting your story of ten years ago to fit your narrative to day.

Our guest on this episode 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.

From her book’s website: “In The Memory Illusion, Dr Julia Shaw uses the latest research to show the astonishing variety of ways in which our memory can indeed be led astray. Fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, the international bestseller The Memory Illusion has been translated into 20 languages and offers a unique insight into the human brain, challenging you to question how much you can ever truly know about yourself.”

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