As a mad scientist, you've done something really strange. I get people to believe things that never happened. My PhD research involved implanting false memories of committing crime into people who had no criminal history. So when people falsely confessed to crimes, they didn't commit. And so being able to hack it or change it showcases this possibility of distorting reality on a very fundamental level. Every individual just has their own reality, and that to me is fascinating.
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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