> I know it works. I just can't believe he's claiming we can't people's > guilt without a doubt because of this. >
Not at all, all I am saying is that memory is fallible. What we seem to remember may not have anything to do with reality. To give you an idea I was part of a study on false memories. After students saw video of a car crash involving a green and a blue car, about 5 minutes later, supposedly as another student I mentioned that the red car was hit pretty hard. Later when questioned about the video, over a third of the students said that the accident involved a red and blue car. The Lost in the Mall study is even more damning. There the confederates were family members. the result was that the subjects reconstructed very detailed memories of an event that never happened. So how valuable is eye witness testimony? > On 2/8/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do a simple google search on "Elizabeth Loftus" You'll find quite a > few studies where this was done, and very easily. Look up the > Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction study by Loftus and Palmer > (1974), http://en.wikipedia. > org/wiki/Reconstruction_of_Automobile_destruction or the Lost in the > Mall technique first discussed in Loftus, and Pickrell (1995), > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique) on > reconstructed memory. > > > > You see memory isn't a fixed thing, some little blot of neurons that > reside somewhere in the brain. Its reconstructed continually. MOreover > we can mix in imagination with memory and things become more vivid and > or interesting than they actually were. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227504 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
