A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Minds

‘We tend to think of memories as perfect little time capsules—important records of past events that matter to us and made us who we are, as unchangeable as a dragonfly stuck in amber. Well, they’re anything but. I recently met with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist who specializes in the science of memory. “I am a memory hacker,” Shaw told me. “I use the science of memory to make you think you did things that never happened.”
Implanting a false memory, it turns out, is alarmingly easy to do.’
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