The Parallels Between Therapy and Memory Hacking

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The most persuasive persuasive techniques are the ones that encourage the other person to meet you more than halfway. And so this is where the parallel draws, there's a bunch of parallels. The context-oriented statement that I used is also used in therapy. You can come out basically of this kind of therapy with PTSD for an event that you didn't actually experience. Which is really quite dark, but also a really big and important warning sign which is one of the reasons I did the research.

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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