-
Alan Castel
University of California, Los Angeles http://castel.bol.ucla.edu/ What does your research focus on? I study memory, metacognition and cognitive aging. I am interested in age-related differences in memory and cognition and how people make judgments and
-
Inside the Psychologist’s Studio: Elizabeth Loftus
APS Past President Elizabeth Loftus speaks about her research — investigating false memory, the reliability of eyewitness reports, and memories “recovered” through therapy — and its impact on how we think about eyewitness testimony.
-
If You Can’t Notice a Gorilla in Plain Sight, How Can You Testify as a Witness?
Discover Magazine: Late one January night in 1995, Boston police officer Kenny Conley ran right past the site of a brutal beating without doing a thing about it. The case received extensive media coverage because
-
Positive Memories Sustain Us
Huffington Post: Emotional events are memorable. If I talk to people from my parent’s generation, they can all tell you where they were and what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had
-
¿Por qué algunas personas son mejores que otras recordando rostros?
AOL Latino: ¿Has conocido a una persona que se presenta contigo en varias ocasiones y siempre como si fuera la primera vez, o quizás a alguien que te ha dicho, “yo te recuerdo de algún
-
Wie Gesichter in der Erinnerung bleiben
Der Spiegel: Auge, Nase, Mund – wer Gesichter nur als Summe ihrer Bestandteile wahrnimmt, erkennt sie später schlechter wieder. Wer das Antlitz seines Gegenübers allerdings im Ganzen wahrnimmt, wird sich später eher an die Person
