elizabeth loftus has done many famous experiments creating memory mirages in humans. she's planted memories in people that they hated strawberry ice cream as a child. or that they love despair across. the planet a false memory that you know as a child you loved asparagus the 1st time you tried it we got people who imagine this and later on they were more interested in eating asparagus so that actually that that scientific paper became a paper with one of my favorite titles which is asparagus a love story. by exposing subjects to fake advertising she's convinced many that they remember seeing bugs bunny at disneyland when they visited. but bugs is not a disney character and has never been there. they'll often then go on to tell us that they they shook his hand or they touched his tail or they heard him say what's up doc you can get people to become more confident that they actually had an encounter with a character. that they didn't and couldn't have encountered i don't study forgetting i study in a way the opposite when people remember things that didn't happened fals

psychologist elizabeth loftus has testified that many trials to point. the frailties of eyewitness memory. she says and eye witnesses memory is like a crime scene it must be protected from any possible contamination during police interviews and lineups. if you contaminate the fingerprints then you don't have very good fingerprint data and likewise if you contaminate the memory trace your own have very good memory evidence. that's what happened to jennifer thompson's memory when she chose cotton at the 1st photo lineup after some indecision over 2 photos. as i looked at the 6 photographs very quickly discount. 4 and i think in my mind i narrowed it down and i picked a number 3 and i told him i was positive he told me that's who he thought had been and i really appreciated that because i felt so relieved and cord it was absolutely unshakable. because he told me i was right in thompson's case she was reinforced after the photos she was reinforced again after the life line up telling her that again she was right by the time of that trial. was her memory. ron

elizabeth loftus has done many famous experiments creating memory mirages in humans. she's planted memories in people that they hated strawberry ice cream as a child. for that they loved asparagus. who planted a false memory that you know as a child you loved asparagus the 1st time you tried it we got people who imagine this and later on they were more interested in eating asparagus so that actually that that scientific paper became a paper with one of my favorite titles which is asparagus a love story. by exposing subjects to fake advertising she's convinced many that they remember seeing bugs bunny at disneyland when they visited. but bugs is not a disney character and has never been there. they'll often have them go on and tell us that they shook his hand or they touched his tail or they heard him say what's up doc you can get people to become more confident that they actually had an encounter with a character. that they didn't and couldn't have encountered i don't study forgetting i study in a way the opposite when people remember things that didn't happened false

psychologist elizabeth loftus has testified that many trials to point. the frailties of eyewitness memory. she says an eye witnesses memory is like a crime scene it must be protected from any possible contamination during police interviews and lineups. if you contaminate the fingerprints then you don't have very good fingerprint data and likewise if you contaminate the memory trace your own have very good memory evidence. that's what happened to jennifer thompson's memory when she chose cotton at the 1st photo lineup after some indecision over 2 photos. as i looked at those 6 photographs very quickly discount. 4 and i think in my mind i narrowed it down and i picked a number 3 and i told him i was positive he told me that's who he thought it then and i really appreciated that because i felt so relieved and court it was absolutely unshakable. because he told me i was right in thompson's case she was reinforced after the photos she was reinforced again after the live line up telling her that again she was right by the time of that trial ronald cotton was t

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you don't need a neuroscientist to create false memories in a lab says elizabeth loftus. because we do it ourselves all the time. so there are studies that show that people remember they they got grades that were better than they actually were that they gave more to charity than they really did that they had kids that walked and talked in an earlier age and they really did we distort our memories in ways that maybe make us feel a little better about ourselves. sometimes you would like the sadness is maybe to recede and not have them being at the forefront of your mind ready. this can be a problem for many people with age sam those who study them say they're often haunted by living memories you may remember the loss of a loved one. it was an intense emotion and we cried but when you remember it as 10 or 15 years old as you feel about it but it's not there for them it's there it's just so emotional experience of 10 years ago just how they have excessively strong memories of all of the bad things that happen to them and i wouldn't want to have. in fact depressed people may r

psychologist elizabeth loftus has testified many trials to play. the frailties of eyewitness memory. she says and eye witnesses memory is like a crime scene it must be protected from any possible contamination during police interviews and lineups. if you contaminate the fingerprints then you don't have very good fingerprint data and likewise if you contaminate the memory trace your own have very good memory evidence. that's what happened to jennifer thompson's memory when she chose cotton at the 1st photo lineup after some indecision over 2 photos. as i looked at the 6 photographs very quickly discount. 4 and i think in my mind i narrowed it down and i picked a number 3 and i told him i was positive he told me that's who he thought it had been and i really appreciated that because i felt so relieved in court it was absolutely unshakable. because he told me i was right in thompson's case she was reinforced after the photos she was reinforced again after the life line up telling her that again she was right by the time of that trial ronald cotton was

renowned psychologist elizabeth loftus has testified that many trials to point. the frailties of eyewitness memory. she says and eye witnesses memory is like a crime scene it must be protected from any possible contamination during police interviews and lineups. if you contaminate the fingerprints then you don't have very good fingerprint data and likewise if you contaminate the memory trace you don't have very good memory evidence. that's what happened to jennifer thompson's memory when she chose cotton at the 1st photo lineup after some indecision over 2 photos. as i looked at the 6 photographs i can very quickly discount. for and i think in my mind i narrowed it down and i picked at number 3 and i told him i was positive he told me that's who he thought and then and i really appreciated that because i felt so relieved in court it was absolutely unshakable. because he told me i was right in thompson's case she was reinforced after the photos she was reinforced again after the life line up telling her that again she was right by the time of that trial ronald cot

you don't need a neuroscientist to create false memories in a lab says elizabeth loftus. because we do it ourselves all the time. so there are studies that show that people remember they they got grades that were better than they actually were and that they gave more to charity than they really did that they had kids that walked and talked in an earlier age or they really did we distort our memories in ways that maybe make us feel a little better about ourselves. sometimes you would like the sadness is maybe to recede and not have them be at the forefront of your mind. this can be a problem for many people with a sam those who study them say they're often haunted by vivid memories you may remember the loss of a loved one were it was an intense emotion and we cried but when you remember it as 10 or 15 years old as you feel about it but it's not there but for the damage there it's just so emotional experience of 10 years ago just how they have excessively strong memories of all of the bad things that happen to them and i wouldn't want to have. in fact depressed people may r