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Spiral
29th September 2013, 12:12
This is a brief & fascinating talk by an expert on false memory, how people can be made to believe that something happened that never did purely by suggestion.


http://youtu.be/PB2OegI6wvI


Published on 23 Sep 2013

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics, and raises some important ethical questions we should all remember to consider.

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