Memory Hacking - What Makes It Real?

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The most persuasive persuasive techniques are the ones that encourage the other person to meet you more than half way. The contex reinstatement that i used is also used in therapy. You can come out a face good wit this kind of therapy with p t s d, for an event that you didn't actually experience. And so it shows that you need to be incredibly careful when someone is saying, don't you remember this?

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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