We Are So Poor at It, It's Not One to One

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I think that there are a lot of people who sort of live in the past and live in their memories. I place much more value on present and future thinking, which is why I like science fiction. Part of the reason I study false memories is because my memory is quite bad, especially for autobiographical things. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives and our memory is right now. And let's just focus if we can as much as possible on the now.

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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