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They went fire. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 85.

Episode 85. Our guest in this episode is Dr. Julia Shaw, a psychologist, a senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Law and Social Sciences at London's South Bank University, she not only teaches classes on criminology and psychology, she also consults as an expert on criminal cases and she

writes for Scientific American for a column they have called Memory Mondays, where she talks all

about how memory is, well, fallible and illusory and mostly fiction

and how very easy it is to implant false memories in people's minds. In fact, the work that she did

which showed that you can easily convince someone that they

committed a felony even though they did not.

You can get them to admit it, to believe that they have a real memory of doing something that would put them in jail

is why she has the new book called The Memory Illusion.

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