In the fourth installment in his series on memory and the work of Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Slate’s William Saletan discusses “repressed memories” that have given rise to all sorts of injustice in courtrooms across America. The title of today’s article is “The Recipe: A Cookbook for Memories of Sexual Abuse,” and includes this revelatory excerpt:
Loftus [...]
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In yesterday’s post regarding William Saletan’s excellent (and continuing) series on memory over at Slate, I quoted this excerpt: “The scary part is that your memories have already been altered. Much of what you recall about your life never happened, or it happened in a very different way.” Elaborating on this idea, Saletan recounts another [...]
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