From: Marketplace
Sure, I remember that
February 12, 2013
Marketplace:
How accurate are our memories? Not as accurate as we’d like to think, especially when it comes to political events.
This week, we look at the work of University of California, Irvine, researcher Elizabeth Loftus, a memory expert, whose research shows just how easily we can be led to “remember” events that never happened. All you have to do is show someone a doctored photograph. These false memories become all the more intense when political beliefs are factored in — Democrats are more likely to falsely remember events that show Republicans in a bad light, and vice-versa.
Read the whole story: Marketplace
See Elizabeth F. Loftus at the 25th APS Annual Convention.
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