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Sentence first, verdict afterwards

Think with Pinker

CHAPTER

Defendants That Don't Qualify for Defense

Elizabeth loftis testified about the nature of memory, on which she has done eye opening research. When collegest say that human memory has a lot of noise, they aren't just saying that feelings of familiarity can be random or flaky. Noise refers to any spurious information. And loftus has shown that noisiness can be injected into memories long after they were formed. One of heur famous experiments, which has been an resistible example in my undergraduate lectures on memory, was set in an american theme park. What we wanted to do is plant a memory something that would be impossible. We planted a memory that you went to disney and you amet shook hands with the bugs

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