Lee: In your book, you say that any event can be forgotten or misremembered. He says he has convinced people they have committed crimes that never occurred. Lee used insider information about their lives to create the false memories. This could have profound implications for how we understand and appraise things like confessions,. And also just retellings of doing bad things, including criminal activity.
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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