"As a person, you are not your memories," Julia Shaw says. "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall" both deal with the idea of creating false memories. The actress believes that people can be fooled into believing untruths if they believe in fake news.
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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