The Fiction of Memory | Elizabeth Loftus
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- For several decades, I have been manufacturing memories in unsuspecting minds. Sometimes this involves changing details of events that someone actually experienced. Other times it involves planting entire memories for events that never happened - “rich false memories.” People can be led to believe that they did things that would have been rather implausible. They can be led to falsely believe that they had experiences that would have been emotional or traumatic had they actually happened. False memories, like true ones, also have consequences for people, affecting later thoughts, intentions, and behaviors. Can we tell true memories from false ones? In several studies, I created false memories in the minds of people and then compared them to true memories…Once planted, the false memories look very much like true memories - in terms of behavioral characteristics, emotionality, and neural signatures. If false memories can be so readily planted in the mind, do we need to think about “regulating” this mind technology? And what do these pseudomemories say about the nature of memory itself?
Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California - Irvine. She holds faculty positions in the Department of Psychology & Social Behavior; the Department of Criminology, Law & Society, and the School of Law She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. Since then, she has published 22 books and over 500 scientific articles. Loftus's research has focused on the malleability of human memory. She has been recognized for her research with seven honorary doctorates and election to numerous prestigious societies, including the National Academy of Sciences. She is past president of the Association for Psychological Science, the Western Psychological Association, and the American Psychology-Law Society. Loftus’s memory research has led to her being called as an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of cases. Some of the more well known cases include the McMartin PreSchool Molestation case, the Hillside Strangler, the Abscam cases, the trial of the officers accused in the Rodney King beating, the Menendez brothers, the Bosnian War trials in the Hague, the Oklahoma Bombing case, and litigation involving Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Scooter Libby, Oliver North, Bill Cosby, and the Duke University Lacrosse players.
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This talk took place at the CSICon 2019 in Las Vegas on October 19, 2019
This is how Vietnam veterans "remember" having hippies spit on them when they returned to the USA.
I lived on seven different military bases during America's involvement in Vietnam, and not a one of those bases had an express lane at the entrance gate for the spitting hippies to come onto the base. All returning GIs came back on military transportation, and none of them arrived at commercial airports.
Many of the Vietnam vets that I know were welcomed back and given free drinks by other customers at the bars when they became civilians again.
Similar to the "memories" created/recalled during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, those spitting events never happened. The vets were fed false memories by our media, no psychologists needed.
There are many examples of this process. The human mind is quite pliable. Over half of the worlds population is incapable of properly discerning the difference between reality and imagination. My wife, for example, is relatively sure that supernatural beings are not only real, but are all around us. She is not a Jamaican, or an African.. She's 100% European American, born and raised. This sub-conscious affinity for imaginary things comes from her Christian up-bringing.
It's insane what trvmp is doing w vets well being options.. $ at ketamine?!.. criminalizing cannabis. Pathetic. Nazi skmup bags... Nice wall. Not .
EXCELLENT EXAMPLE, William Arnold!
What memories were recalled during Satanic Panic?
Fascinating stuff. I hope I remember it.
Maybe you only think you remember this, but you never really watched this video.
Tim Hallas Ha Ha Ha, it’s been implanted!
Why wouldn’t you remember it?
Donald must have watched this video and for once, remember what it was about and applied these principles.
She can’t remember how long she has been studying memory.
Can't get any more loaded than that story.
It seems to me the sword cuts both ways, if I can create a false memory in you of your relative abusing you when you have no vested interest in thinking of them as a bad person, could I not create a false memory of them not abusing you when they actually have, especially if you do have a vested interest in thinking of them as a "good" guy, parent, sibling, etc. necessary for survival?
thatuncinsciousguy: Go up and read Camira Burana's post, and my comment to her. This may shed some light on the very subject you mentioned.
@@timhallas4275 Thanks Tim for the acknowledgement and the suggestion.
While I do agree that memory can be reprised, I also know that people can be malevolent and pathological liars.
Brilliant! Complicated topic with high impact on reality and peoples lives but easy to listen because Professor Loftus use non-academic language! One of my top 10 science-videos on CZcams! (Or is it top 20? I do not remember ;)
1:45 💯🗝️📝books tho
“The idea put forth by Elizabeth Loftus and other FMSF supporters that repressed memories are a kooky made-up phenomenon too out-there to be real.
In Loftus’s book, The Myth of Repressed Memory, she writes:
“I don’t question the fact that memories can come back spontaneously, that details can be forgotten, or even that memories of abuse can be triggered by various cues many years later.”
Based on well-known literature by both trauma experts and survivors, the above is a fairly sound description of repressed memory. It’s hard to understand, then, Loftus’s insistence that repressed memory is a myth.
That is because Loftus’s definition of repressed memory is not derived from trauma experts or survivors, but rather from the population that she is steeped in: Alleged perpetrators.
The accounts given to Loftus, as detailed in her book, describe repressed abuse memories as shocking, bizarre, out of sync with reality, delusional and entirely baseless - according to the accused.
Allowing alleged incest perpetrators to define repressed memory is like allowing Harvey Weinstein to define sexual trauma. Abusers have been calling their victims crazy since the dawn of time. Loftus lent authority to that diagnosis.”
Firstview first thumbs up first comment, the only true Trinity
But you didn't really make a comment on the video... did you? Two out of three ain't bad. But it's no trinity. Ha Ha ha.
She says she's been studying memory for the last four decades or so. How does she know that she didn't just make up those memories while reading the other guy's book? Maybe it was he who has studied memory for the last 4 decades,, not her.
Troll alert.
@blub blub She said that some memories are made up. I agreed with sarcasm included for no extra charge.
@blub blub Sounds like a bad dream. If you need backup, give me the link to the vids and I'll snipe some creationists for you.
It’s all bs anyway, one of many propaganda campaigns by clinical psychology.
“.....At the center of the backlash movement was an organization called the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). Founded in 1992, FMSF was on its surface an “advocacy group” created by and for parents who’d been accused by their children of sexual abuse. The group’s supposed agenda was to provide support and fellowship to families that had been “destroyed” by accusations of incest. They launched a well-funded media campaign purporting the existence of an epidemic of “False Memory Syndrome” - not a scientifically researched condition, but rather a slogan concocted by accused parents to discredit the testimonies of their children. The campaign was highly effective, and the media eagerly gobbled it up. It eased the dissonance between an image of the “perfect American family” and an emerging consciousness of staggering rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) across the U.S. and worldwide.”
@@motucker44 So, your research allows you to conclude that false memories are not real? Interestingly enough, in about 70% of child abuse accusations by young children, there was suggestive language used by psychologists that was proven to have planted these memories in these children's minds. Many other experiments were done to see exactly how easy it is to make children think they remember events that never happened. It was very successful. In your zeal to stop child abuse, you may well be destroying families. Be thoughtful.
Cool title.
Doctored photos?! Nuts
2:21 hey that's trvmp admin in taxpayers' AND military'$ pocket ouch..
11:38 haaaaa lady that's filth jk
pure waffle
Dreams are overrated.. very "old world drag haaaa
False data .. plenty right?!
Hack. Terrible human.