"It's very difficult to accept on the face that I could be convinced that I committed a crime that I didn't commit," he says. "Everyone involved in this is living a complete myth, a fiction, a fantasy, a dream that never occurred yet everyone involved in it has deep confidence." He adds: "This is absolutely the normal everyday functioning of human brains interacting with one another ... Does that freak you out or freaks me out?"
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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