How Does Social Media Influence My Identity and My Memory?

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The Memory Illusion is all about false memories and the science of misremembering. It also talks about social media and how you are the narrator of your online persona as well. So I think that's a really profound question that a lot of us are grappling with, is how does social media influence my identity and my memory? And tying in with that, talking about social media, I'm on Instagram and on Twitter, both are at DrJulia Shaw.

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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