179 - The Memory Illusion by You Are Not So Smart published on 2020-05-03T22:27:49Z 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. - Show notes at: www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • BetterHelp -- Offer code: YANSS -- www.betterhelp.com/YANSS Genre Science Comment by Tracy Brown the courts operate with tactics that are protected under freedom of information act the socially inferior suspect is perceived as uncooperative evasive the idea that these are merely police is wrong the attorney is likely to recommend pleadinguilty 2023-12-14T13:52:34Z Comment by 61i72h For anyone interested, it's a short story called "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K Dick. That, "The Electric Ant" and "Faith of our Fathers" are some of his best works on perceptual subjectivity. 2020-05-16T09:27:36Z