
What Netflix's "The Confession Tapes" Teach Us about the Psychology of Interrogations
The take-home message is that we need to change the way police do interrogations--and do it fast
Julia Shaw is a research associate at University College London . She is also a, speaker, and author of the international best-selling book The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory, released in 14 languages in 2017.
The take-home message is that we need to change the way police do interrogations--and do it fast
A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe
Eyewitness memory appears to be largely unaffected by mild or even moderate alcohol consumption
How sleep, circadian rhythms and chronotype affect your ability to remember
How to prevent the most salient feature from being the least informative
The benefits of a post-truth society
Our brains are great at creating personal versions of historical fiction
Some people are so good at remembering faces that it’s downright creepy
Two phenomena, known as decay and interference, play a role, depending on what it is we're trying to remember
Just because you're absolutely confident you remember something accurately doesn't mean it's true
Our memories of our own lives are often unreliable, so it should be no surprise that the same is true for our departed loved ones
The psychology behind why so many people are willing to ignore the experts
If you think all of your memories are real and accurate, think again
The media (and scientists) often overstate how much progress the field has actually made
Someone can tamper with your statement about an event you witnessed—and you might come to believe the altered version is what you actually saw
Sonogenetics, the future of memory hacking
Understanding commonly used, and generally discredited, psychoanalytic terms
It's such a terrifying but beautiful notion that every day you wake up with a slightly different personal past.
That's because a distracted brain is a forgetful brain
The '90s called: they want their jargon back
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