The Cranks My Tractorete Taks Mua Sity

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i think about the fact that these memories can be fictions, and pretty dense ones. And so thatit just simply becomes the story of who we are to ourselves and others. It's not even that it's a good thing. I mean, this is like with science in general, and like what we find isn't necessarily good or bad, it just is. So i think that's true with memories as well, as that this is how it works. And that is, it's what's important. In terms of understanding, and i think it can be really good for ampathy, to also understand why you might have, for example, a different story than somebody else.

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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