From: NPR
Baltimore Police Shooting That Wasn’t ‘Illustrates Malleable Nature Of Memories’
May 7, 2015
NPR:
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks to Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, about inventing memories. False reports Monday said a man was shot by Baltimore police.
Yesterday in Baltimore, something didn’t happen, despite convincing accounts that it did. The descriptions of a police shooting that wasn’t were so persuasive as to make you wonder about perception, certainty and error. Fox News producer Mike Tobin told viewers he had seen it.
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