210 - Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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I've Convinced People They Have Committed Crimes That Never Taken Place
In your book, you say that any event can be forgotten or misremembered. You have also convinced people they have committed crimes that never occurred. This has profound implications for how we understand and appraise things like confessions,. And just retelling of doing bad things, including criminal activity. So i wanted to look at the intersection of false memories and false confessions. I wanted to specifically add what we would consider agency into the mix. For me, that's a much more interesting aspect of it, the sort of, what if i convince you that you committed a crime or did something negative emotional? And so that's what i wanted to do. It's not a party trick. It
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