Wednesday, November 21, 2012

How the truth gets twisted

How the Truth Gets Twisted

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has devoted her career to proving that memories don't just fade, they can also change.

By Ann Marsh and Greta Lorge


http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=57592&CSRT=1444742095335907025

This is an insightful article from the Stanford University Magazine on how memories work, and do not work. It is disappointing and frustrating when we cannot recall something important. It is perhaps painful that one's unreliable memories are actually misleading or lying to oneself.