In Scottish Law, witnesses are NOT PERMITTED to hear the testimony of other witnesses to prevent contamination of testimony. This has been the case for HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
@minimanofiron25015 жыл бұрын
Scottish law seems to be awesome then.
@JeffryMinecraft5 жыл бұрын
America is by far the most socially backwards "westernized" country. I hate living here.
@DavidFMayerPhD5 жыл бұрын
Ben Rosenberg: There is a simple solution to your problem. Go somewhere else.
@chinookvalley5 жыл бұрын
@@DavidFMayerPhD Have a spare room? I'm on my way.
@JeffryMinecraft5 жыл бұрын
DavidFMayerPhD To tell you the truth I've been genuinely considering that lately
@Racingirl9117 жыл бұрын
When I was in college I did a project for my psychology class, and the results of my project even surprised and shocked me! With my professor's permission, I did my project during one of our classes. For my project, at approximately halfway through the one hour class, I had a friend of mine suddenly, and quite aggressively, run into the room and "steal" my purse that I had placed on my desk, which was located in the front row of the classroom. And, although my friend didn't say anything as she aggressively grabbed my purse and then quickly turned around and made her escape out of the same door she had just entered, I yelled just one word-"HEY!!!!!" Well, immediately after my friend grabbed my purse and ran out the door, I handed a short one page questionnaire to every student (approx. 50 students) in the classroom that day. Most of the questions were about the physical description of the "thief". And, the rest of the questions focused on what they felt they saw happen. The answers that pertained to the physical description of my friend varied dramatically! My friend was as follows: 1. Gender--female 2. Height--5'7" 3. Weight--160 pounds 4. Clothes--She was wearing a black "hoodie", and blue jeans 5. She had shoulder length hair that was a very dark brown, and it could be seen quite well, despite the fact that she had pulled the hat of the hoodie up onto her head. Most of the students said that she was a "he", who was anywhere from 5 feet tall to over 6 feet. She was said to weigh somewhere around 120 pounds to 200 pounds. She was also described as having red, dark blonde and even black color hair. And, with regards to what they described she was wearing, the answers once again were as varied as the answers in all of the previous questions. Oh, and when asked if they heard any sounds or words spoken during this incident, some stated that nothing was said, while others said they had "clearly" heard the "thief yell something to me. So, after viewing all of the data I had garnered from my "Eyewitness" project, I came to the only conclusion that could be drawn from the overall results of my project--without a doubt, eyewitness accounts were unreliable and should never be accepted as any real type of "evidence" in a criminal trial. And, given those results, I truly have to wonder how many innocent people have been to, or are currently in prison based on any degree of "eyewitness accounts"...
@hofifut6 жыл бұрын
nice story
@steffenfrost5 жыл бұрын
Clever experiment, kudos for creativity.
@ronineternales67025 жыл бұрын
It would be very interesting to see what they remember 1 year, 10 years, maybe even 36 years later.
@ericpreble6745 жыл бұрын
Can’t remember when it happened, where it happened, if it was 2 or 4 men, how she got there or how she left. But Dr Ford can 100% perfectly remember it was Kavanaugh who groped her...
@brianmathisinmontana5 жыл бұрын
A classic is to ask a question with a "the" and an "a". For example, did you the the gun versus did you see a gun. Very different results.
@joslinnick9 жыл бұрын
This is why I laugh when people say, "Well, if you didn't do it, then you don't have anything to worry about." I'm sorry, but there have simply been too many miscarriages of justice for me to believe that for a second.
@frannyzooey119 жыл бұрын
Nick Joslinn God , do I agree with you.
@rogerwakefield83898 жыл бұрын
The other one I hate is when. Peop;e say "the Truth will set YOU FREE"??.. Well in this Decade, that does NOT seem to be the Case.. CRAZY High Rise Epidemic of Fabricated Allegtions / Accusations etc..
@maiajintcharadze74858 жыл бұрын
+Nick Joslin When people say that it doesn't make me laugh but it makes me sad
@joslinnick8 жыл бұрын
Maia Jincharadze Yeah, either sad or afraid.
@moriartywalksfree38938 жыл бұрын
Are you in trouble ?
@bensjammin98 жыл бұрын
Titus' story is so sad... I feel horrible for what happened to him and his family... He was gonna probably have a long and happy life with his wife and family, but the horribly broken justice system tore that life from him and destroyed his life to the point of death... :(
@ItsAllCopasetic6 жыл бұрын
It is sad, initially, but he made the choice to let this experience hold him back and ruin his own life in the process
@notsunkyet5 жыл бұрын
+Brooklyn Bradley - Exactly! I would argue ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is a bed rock foundational principal. +Benjamin Michaels - I suspect you would feel differently if you are ever wrongly accused of such a horrid crime as rape. ------------------ On the subject of _Justice_ _”That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.”_ ~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) in a letter to Benjamin Vaughan, March 14, 1785.-The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert H. Smyth, vol. 9, p. 293 (1906). Franklin was echoing Voltaire, _”that generous Maxim, that ’tis much more Prudence to acquit two Persons, tho’ actually guilty, than to pass Sentence of Condemnation on one that is virtuous and innocent.”_ ~Zadig, chapter 6, p. 53 (1749, reprinted 1974). Also, Sir William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 4, chapter 27, p. 358 (1783, reprinted 1978), says, _”For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”_ ---------------- +Jordan Francique - I think it is a righteous duty for someone - who has had their life, liberty and inalienable rights stolen from them, wrongly imprisoned and name trashed so that he would always be looked at with suspicion for the rest of his life, impacting his ability to find work - to do something about it. To right the wrong, to clear his name. I think it is unfair for the presenter to portray him as “bitter”, (she didn’t go through the ordeal and her name isn’t trashed for the rest of her life) as well as his fiancé who I suspect did not understanding his righteous anger. I bet if his fiancé showed a bit of understanding and willingness to help him clear his name he wouldn’t have been so ‘angry’. There is something called righteous indignation and you can be angry without sinning. I believe he had just cause to have both. He was doing the right thing to try and right the wrong by using the very system that unjustly not only convicted him but ruined not only his present life but his future life as well.
@bruceparr16785 жыл бұрын
@Benjamin Michaels Better a hundred guilty men go free than we imprison one innocent man. This is the basis of western justice.
@Ameerali275 жыл бұрын
Many bad things can happen to us in life. Yes it can affect us and make us take up drink and drugs. But I believe that its still a choice. Its easy to blame circumstances and therefore avoid responsiblitiy and fel less guilty about the mess we got ourselves into. Its hard to take a big measure of the blame oneself go introspective and see at which point we took a wrong turn when we could have summoned our internal strength and avoided it. And to ensure that we learn from our experience and be the better for it. Becoming bitter and resentful is also a choice. He made that choice and lost everything. Its sad really.
@notsunkyet5 жыл бұрын
+Ameerali Abdeali - The only bad, _random_ thing that happened to Steve Titus was the initial sloppy and incompetent police work when he got pulled over for driving a car that "sort of resembled" the one reported by the rape victim. From there on out it was a concerted effort of collusion and corruption in the criminal justice system, the police, the prosecuting attorney, those who coached the victim to make sure Titus was convicted at all costs, based solely on the victim's changed story. Yes, he made a choice, and as I've said above, I believe it was the only duty-bound choice to make. To try to right the grievous wrong that was purposefully done to him. It is our duty to bring to light these injustices that show not only where the system is broken, but also the willful incompetence and corruption of those who have sworn a duty to uphold, protect and defend our inalienable rights. Titus' inalienable rights were trashed, along with his life as well as his future life too. He would always be held in suspicion and his ability to find decent work severely hindered. Our - your - rights do not and cannot stand for themselves, we - you - must stand for them. That is what Titus was attempting to do, not just for himself but for all of us. I do not find that to be the actions of someone who is bitter, righteously indignant, but not bitter. Unfortunately, it appears that he did not have the support he needed from his fiance or anyone else. I dare anyone to go through what Titus did and not have any support from loved ones and see how well their health fairs. Because of all of the people before us, that were willfully and wrongly convicted, decided to take the easy way out and simply shrugged their shoulders and moved on, they failed to do their civic duty to stand upon and defend their inalienable rights against the corruption. That is why we now find ourselves losing them at alarming speed with little to no over-sight by the "people" and no accountability to those in the justice system who habitually abuse them. Now days whenever someone tries to assert their rights, more often than not, the police officer 'cops' an attitude and purposefully goes about escalating the situation in order to make the person pay for asserting their rights. Why? Because the police feel that their authority (their ego) has been challenged. Why would that be? Because of the training that they are given. The system is rotten and it needs to be corrected and that can only happen when 'the people' do the difficult civic duty and stand up for their rights.
@codediporpal5 жыл бұрын
I went to one of those "EST" like events when I was about 20. They had us recall childhood trauma. I recalled my sister almost dying in the hospital when she was an infant. I could even remember waiting in the hospital waiting room crying. Maybe 10 years later was talking about childhood and mentioned this to my father and sister. There was no such event. My sister had only been to the hospital for routine problems. I'd lived with a false memory for 10 years. I have other false memories in my head that I now know are false. And yet they are memories. It's truly bizarre.
@estelanak5 жыл бұрын
I do have a false memory of seeing a UFO, hahaha! There was a fair when I was a child, right down the street and me and my cousins went further and there was a field which we saw the UFO. As soon as it landed, me and my cousins ran away in terror. The thing is... There was never a fair down the street, there was no reason to be any fair or party down there. I never asked, but sure they would call me crazy by saying that.
@omega3motorsports1322 жыл бұрын
Hey
@walkervreelandproductions78662 жыл бұрын
The human mind is fascinating, don’t you think?
@edgarpayne86732 жыл бұрын
:(
@emilio02023 жыл бұрын
who else here for their psychology homework ?
@j.c.867710 ай бұрын
Me🙃
@jiayicheng12889 ай бұрын
😅
@virginiacampos72649 ай бұрын
Yup lol 😂
@Torien-0249 ай бұрын
@@virginiacampos7264frfr
@Thurick9 ай бұрын
me lol
@peterfaigl78769 жыл бұрын
Such a humanist. This lady is a rare spirit indeed. I hope she stays strong. Elisabeth I love and admire your work and dedication. And at the same time am appalled and disgusted by the in/justice system. The number of people that have been unjustly incarcerated pales when you think about those that were legally murdered for committing crimes they never did. So it is not an exaggeration to say you are a real saviour to so many. Thank you on their behalf.
@frannyzooey119 жыл бұрын
Peter Faigl I could not agree with you more. God knows how many peoplewere jailed and legally murdered because of false eyewitness identification.
@frannyzooey119 жыл бұрын
Peter Faigl I forgot about false confessions.
@Xavalexa5 жыл бұрын
Sad that she refused to testify on behalf of science in the Demjanjuck case www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p238_Cobden.html
@Klara93 жыл бұрын
one reason more to abolish the medieval aberration of death penalty, all over the world.
@regulatorsmountup49312 жыл бұрын
She’s a horrifying person who makes her money being an expert witness, defending pedophiles, rapists and serial killers
@HeatherSpoonheim9 жыл бұрын
I am now haunted by this vague feeling that as a child I saw Elizabeth Loftus in a mall, and she turned into a wolf and chased me until I fell into a fountain and nearly drowned. Anyone else have this feeling?
@LemonNation9 жыл бұрын
Feeling? Nah, that actually happened to me.
@WinterBornActual5 жыл бұрын
I am 60 years of age. About 10 years ago I started to mistrust my memory. Not things like appointments, when I lost my keys, but experiences that I think happened to me, how my memories changed. I have seen other things like this and am not surprised at all. Years ago, my wife and I both witnessed a motorbike accident. Our memories different in critical matters. We need to be VERY careful. I hear. 'I remember such and such a thing happening vividly'. I am often sceptical
@heteroerectus5 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of a controversy that was just in the media. I wish I could remember what it was...
@glennso475 жыл бұрын
e g When you get older, the memory is the second thing to go. I wish I could recall what the first thing was.🤔
@stevenbristol77975 жыл бұрын
Where am I?
@chinookvalley5 жыл бұрын
As my dear old father used to say: "What goat?"
@justabitofjunkie25955 жыл бұрын
I think you're thinking about that turtle that they made a wheelchair for out of Legos.
@prabhleenreen35945 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo stoppppp
@sorbusstone8 ай бұрын
Her "research" also proves then: It is also very easy to convince victims of crime and abuse, that the abuse was consensual, or that it was the fault of the victim. An abuser or criminal has EVERYTHING to lose, if the victim is believed. Every single abuser/criminal ever, benefits from planting DOUBT, shame and blame into their victim's minds. And they attempt to do so.
@GamingwithKetones8 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone dislike this video? This is what happens to us on a daily basis, if we don't understand that our memeory is susceptible to error, as well as manipulation.
@Armuotas8 жыл бұрын
+Shandykidinkent Richmond There are people who will go against ANYTHING that helps better the human condition. And for some the only resistance possible is hitting the "dislike" button.
@GRGO01528 жыл бұрын
+Shandykidinkent Richmond People like to make their own hypothesis' :)
@GamingwithKetones8 жыл бұрын
mYl Armuotas You both are right, people just want to impulsively "dislike" something that doesn't conform with their own beliefs. Apologies for not replying earlier, working on my Major in Sociology. - James
@GRGO01528 жыл бұрын
It's their right to disagree after all.. And I'm sure there are other theories that have just as much evidence... The brain is still a big mystery... Then again, knowing the internet community they just disliked it because they felt like it.... - Bachelor in Psychology :)
@GamingwithKetones8 жыл бұрын
mYl Woo someone in the Social Sciences I love it! I'm getting a Minor in Psychology, becoming a Occupational therapist for the VA. what do you specialize in if you don't mind me asking? I have a close friend who is a clinical psychologist. - James
@Vicvines10 жыл бұрын
eyewitness testimony shouldn't even be admissible in court. People who claim that they know exactly what they saw beyond a doubt, usually do not know what they saw because someone who actually remembered would have at least a few doubts. And people who have been raped are more prone to creating false memories because false memories serve to defend us from the horror of the unknown. If you can put a face on the abuser, it feels better than not knowing what the abuser looked like.
@Cara.3146 жыл бұрын
testimony is only useful for comparing against forensic evidence. and the person giving the testimony must know nothing of the forensic evidence for it to be useful.
@slehcyo82236 жыл бұрын
many times the eye witness helps catch someone & it's the right person
@elmarco7775 жыл бұрын
Unless you know the person or have seen them around, it can't be trusted.
@adamhonestyanddecency50545 жыл бұрын
Patrick I think your first sentence is overly broad. Memories are neither one hundred percent accurate nor one hundred percent inaccurate. Eyewitness accounts can be used as a part of the puzzle, taking into account the understading of their limitations.
@0xCAFEF00D5 жыл бұрын
Elaborate. What meta-studies have you seen concerning what evidence leads to conviction that justify your position?
@carolinewall25285 жыл бұрын
I love how she is passionate about her line of work and it is very evident in her presentation.
@mechelefelts95599 жыл бұрын
My experience , growing up in a dysfunctional home, where denial of truth of the environment and feelings was norm. Later as an adult When i confronted my parents about the abuse, they had a tendency to misremember and say it didn't happen... well it did and I'm spending my time healing and relearning and creating a healthy me, regardless if they had the memory...so sometimes people purposely forget but behavior of dysfunction eeks out in relationship and actions regardless of memory..
@ebooklibrary279 жыл бұрын
People tend to repress memories of things they did that they regret. I believe it's likely the memories are still there, they just refuse to come to terms with that. It's like when someone who drinks/uses all the time finally goes to AA or NA, they are basically forced to admit that they are addicts and will always be addicts, that's the hardest part for many of them. There is something innate that fights against that admission, it's like an admission of guilt or something. Almost like when you catch a small child red handed in wrong doing and they look at you and shake their heads like, what cha' lookin at me for? That urge to deny that we are flawed and can do wrong is strong and built into us at a very young age. Just know you are not alone in your experience my friend..
@marscaleb5 жыл бұрын
I have noticed - even just in my own memories - that our memories are built out of pieces. When I think back to memories as a child, when I see my brothers, I see them as they are now, and hear the voices they have now, not that they had as children. Our mind stores bits of memories and when they are called up they are assembled like building a whole new object from a set of blueprints. It is not a perfect replica every time, it is just following a blueprint. It is not hard to expand this to see that in truth those memories are built with several layers of blueprints. If one detail changes, the other blueprints that depend on that detail will change. Memory becomes easily corruptible if one thing is changed. I have had dreams where I was back at the house I grew up in; a house I lived in for more then twenty years of my life. But my dream, being a dream, built the house wrong and showed it inaccurately. But yet now, when I try to think of that house, I see the details as they appeared in the dream. I can just barely see enough to understand that the memory is wrong, and if I work very hard I can see specific details that I know were not correct. But my mind still builds the false memory because I can see that one clearer than the true memory.
@WisdomThumbs10 жыл бұрын
As I kid I had a friend who I would ask "Hey, do you remember when [x] happened?" And [x] would be an event changed by erroneous details, or even a completely fabricated event. In many cases he would brighten up and remember [x], often quite vividly. This was obviously much more likely to happen when it was a real event with fudged details, but... still. It instilled in me a distrust in human memory. I did wonder if he was actually remembering these false events or just claiming he did so as to better fit in, but over the years I've seen other people try this trick on me and others. Either your mind latches onto [x] and assembles a memory out of other unrelated memories, or you pretend you remember it because you feel it's expected to, or (much less often) you call them on their bullshit. But it's a safe stunt to pull, generally. Keep an eye out for it.
@Crick19529 жыл бұрын
I'll typically do the last two
@christopher51519 жыл бұрын
We need more people like this out spreading this message. I am dealing with this on 2 fronts right now and it totally sucks. If you suspect a memory issues with friends or spouse, first have yourself checked out (which is what i did) and if it appears you are not the problem do not hesitate telling your friends or family that they may have issues and to get checked out. Executive function is nothing to mess around with.
@waggishsagacity7947Сағат бұрын
Elizabeth Loftus is our modern day Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno, and Baruch Spinoza. I can't think of greater examples of courage and integrity. Thanks very much. It was fascinating and uplifting.
@SebiSzabi5 жыл бұрын
Once I was looking for my neckless everywhere and couldn’t find it. I went through everything, trying to remember when did I hold it last in my hand, and I was trying to picture the situation when I put it away. Heaps of different ideas crossed my mind, the entire content of my wardrobe was thrown in a pile at the middle of the room... Every corner checked... Finally, I totally convinced myself, that I took it off on my way back home about a month ago, and put it in the inside packet of a jacket of mine which I gave away to charity the other day. I could literally remember myself doing it... but obviously I didn’t, because it was in the drawer at my workplace.... It is indeed scary what our brains are capable of doing.
@sarahloffler18725 жыл бұрын
Wow! Fantastic talk. We need more scientists like this in the field of psychology. What a brave powerhouse.
@cutifat7 жыл бұрын
I really admire this very special professor, Elizabeth Loftus, for her incredible curiosity and perseverance. I don't think "false memory" will cater to the majority's interest or appreciation, but she still hangs in there. Way to go! A 100% real scientist!
@Yardo11 жыл бұрын
This is the reason I love video and photo recording. We can relive the experiences we may have forgotten or have become ambiguous in our minds.
@AmythefirstA5 жыл бұрын
This was fascinating! I love learning about memory. I know that my memories change. I've noticed old sparse memories getting filled in when I learn more details, or being sure of a memory only to have it thrown completely into doubt when someone else presents a conflicting memory.
@EatingAnElephant Жыл бұрын
I have memories that are my own, meaning that I know they are mine because I was alone and no one convinced me of the activity or event. Some of my memories are the kind of memories that no one would corroborate because of the embarrassment it would cause them. I also have "memories" of things that were put there by people who told me the story over and over and I would not know about it without the input of others.
@brockmackin89135 жыл бұрын
We cannot reliably distinguish false memories. We need independent corroboration.
@nunyabisnass11415 жыл бұрын
My memory used to be well enough that i could tell you everything going on around me for that memory. Now i struggle to remember how to finish sentences. Most times i try remember logical details that logically must have happened to support my version of events. Like growing up, my brother would often think i did this funny thing at a party, but i was always working on weekends and only called out twice during that period of time, one for a wedding, and another for a birthday neither of which he went to. So if i mist hsve been working, then i couldnt have been with him at those parties to do those things. It isnt even possible.
@RainBoxRed5 жыл бұрын
Or so you think...
@catsozen5 жыл бұрын
Yeap, it's why I keep my diary and notes, so the important stuffs do not get muddled over time. Never trust humans, not even yourself.
@jennifercollins25485 жыл бұрын
Pointing out the need for corroboration in the case against Brett Kavanaugh. 100% sure from something that happened under stress 36 years ago shouldn’t be accepted as pure memory.
@ADEehrh5 жыл бұрын
👍( gas lighting)
@charmedgirl905 жыл бұрын
I was in a holdup when I was 15 and while we were waiting for the police, the other worker (who interacted with the guy) and I pieced together what we had noticed about him. I was truly embarrassed by how much I couldn't remember or remembered incorrectly.
@McMurchie11 жыл бұрын
Her opening story about the guy is so sad :(
@Weigazod4 жыл бұрын
:(
@scretching085 жыл бұрын
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus is a well-known expert in false memories. I have a 1981 textbook she co-wrote in college psychology.
@DrakeSilmore5 жыл бұрын
Her work is amazing, and it is even expended upon in the field of neuroscience. Memory is not about what happened, but rather about what is the most probable that has happened. We have predictive and associative brains, not factual and logical ones. It's pretty scary and awesome at the same time.
@DrakeSilmore4 жыл бұрын
@Itzcali liliana I don't have to discredit the idea of repressed memories, the idea has to prove itself. There has to be replicable evidence that repressed memories exist and the ways to access them are reliable. At the same time there is ample of evidence that you can plant false memories in someone's brain, so you have to take that into account as well. As with everything in science, there is a lot of nuance here and neither side is probably completely correct. It is possible and documented for people to have memory loss after an intense trauma, which would be interpreted as repressed memories. It is equally possible and documented that careless therapists actually talk their patients into the conviction that they have been abused by their parent and that that causes their hardship, while this has factually not happened at all. The brain is very susceptible to suggestion. It is, however, far more likely that things are just forgotten naturally, even if they did truly happened, and that recalling them during sessions only further restricts the patient recalling them. In this case there are not unconscious memories, the brain has just learned to interact with the world in a certain way, and being aware any trauma that happened isn't going to help with dealing with that.
@MMU_U11 ай бұрын
Is a well know abuser defender, Ted Bundy, Havey Weinstein, Jefrey Epstein, Bill Cosby are just a few she defend, she´s so unetical
@Slarti5 жыл бұрын
I left a comment on a teacher at a previous school I went to and the police got in touch with me because this particular teacher was being accused of sexual assault by another former pupil. The police were extremely careful in not giving me leading questions. When I read in the press what this teacher was accused of I had two very significant memories of the teacher however this was only triggered by what I had read about the case. So I have seen first hand how unreliable memory is.
@kyle-kz6iy5 жыл бұрын
I think its how we individually perceive things. For instance, a teacher can be really friendly and touchy with students and you'll think nothing of it because hey, its just their personality. Then they get accused of sexual assault and you go back on your memories and think "Well maybe they were a predator rather than just friendly".
@DharmendraRaiMindMap9 жыл бұрын
Every thinking person should see this talk & understand the concept of false memory
@martharichler66725 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant. Faulty memory or memory/stories shaped/dictated/suggested by police interview's leading question ("is this the person...?") can lead to devastating consequences for the defendant. "Suggestive information" can warp justice. Everyone should watch this.
@FreedomFTW7 жыл бұрын
This video has good information. I dissagree with implanting traumatic false memories in people as an experiment. Especially the possession one. Why would they use such memories that can mess a person up for an experiment? Yet later say it also works with good memories.
@MargjevanderLei10 жыл бұрын
This is very powerful, the mind is tricking us by what ever reason. I wonder if there is a connection with the feelings that are involved? The feelings keeping the story's a live and change the story's the way to protect the core feeling of the event. When you change the feelings the story changes too.
@user-hr7et9wm6j8 жыл бұрын
Great talk which proves that nobody is errorless and calls us to be more human. I will remember it.
@pheonixrises115 жыл бұрын
It's kind of comforting to me that my memory isn't actually bad, and it's probably okay that I don't remember a lot of the faces I see, even the people I talk to.
@lapatria1009 жыл бұрын
So it's possible to shift my negative thoughts that triggered due to a event a few years back which inherently turned into a habit of self put down into positive thoughts by being induced to believe that something else occurred? I need a psychiatrist or therapist....this is gold... I'm learning this in my first year of English @ junior college
@irrelevantirrelevant73325 жыл бұрын
Yeah sure, that is what therapy is partially about. Accepting the past as it is, as you realise you made unsmart decisions and accept them. You turn the feel of sourness and bitterness of crushing defeat into something useful. You begin to learn from EXPERIENCE - the bad ones. The second part is about remembering your victories. Your successes and how you achieved them.
@jdsguam5 жыл бұрын
Why isn't this video being spread far and wide?
@cassie65835 жыл бұрын
That is exactly what I would like to know. Democrats dont want the populace to see it.
@EdibleCastleWill5 жыл бұрын
might be the shrill tone
@riftrulek4d5 жыл бұрын
Her voice might make some people deaf
@breathgrowth51025 жыл бұрын
Because its about abuse and ted supports hillary
@cassie65835 жыл бұрын
It's about wrongly accused of something because of false memories. Hillary has nothing to do with it. Do you have a comprehension problem or are you just a dumbass?
@jordanmchighlander93654 жыл бұрын
I read a story at one point and I loved it completely. I still even gushed about how well developed my favourite scene was. Later on, I reread the story (which was just as I remembered) and once I reached my favourite scene I found out it was nothing like I remembered. The scene didn't have any substance and made no sense. Then I remembered something else; I hated that one scene so much that I rewrote it in my head. I changed it to fit the narrative better and provide some much needed closure. I'd previously spent a lot of time thinking about how that one scene could've been better that when recalling the story I thought the scene actually happened.
@noochinator5 жыл бұрын
You, Ma'am, are a hero, and more needed now than ever!
@pickleballer17295 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant talk! I listen to a Podcast called "The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe" and they often talk about these issues (faulty memory and scientists being sued to stop them from speaking out). Two of the biggest problems facing us. The perversion of truth (mostly inadvertently but sometimes intentionally) and the suppression of truth. Keep on Speaking out, Dr. Loftus and SGU!
@ncjxbshj Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, but the obesity bit was a little insane. Billions of people outside of America, including my own parents, somehow managed to save their kids from obesity and diabetes without using deranged mind games. It's really not that hard.
@Ljg2034 жыл бұрын
I know there are people with photographic memories but in these kinds of situations you need to be paying full attention and usually people don’t have enough time to process exactly what is happening for their testimony to be deemed reliable. I feel really sad for Titus...his life was destroyed because of false eye-witness testimonies, but goodness knows how many other lives have been ruined due to the same circumstance. I’m grateful to Elizabeth Loftus for persevering with her work in this field, despite people trying to sue her!! I guess if you’re convinced something awful has happened to you during or as a consequence of therapy (even though it really didn’t) then being disbelieved must feel terrible and therapists are surely accountable, but yeah, it’s definitely a grey area!
@jessewest35234 жыл бұрын
What an incredible, brave, intelligent woman! She's exactly the kind of woman who some people would accuse of being too "ambitious," "aggressive," or "unpleasant." But look at what she's accomplished and the information she's added to humanity's collective knowledge!
@domari95398 жыл бұрын
Brilliant woman. Brilliant presentation.
@Amy-tl2xe5 жыл бұрын
This woman has done a great service to the world with her research. Thank you, Ms. Loftus.
@bonnieallen45972 жыл бұрын
You mean disservice to many, many victims!
@michaelcox545 Жыл бұрын
A fantastic service indeed… for satanic pedophile cults.
@pstrzel5 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't this video be getting more views now?
@scubamanbrian15185 жыл бұрын
I think its incredibly relevant right now. I think everyone should view it and think.
@scubamanbrian15185 жыл бұрын
I think there's a whole lot of evidence that politics was involved. With such a weak case with no evidence from 36 years ago that literally all the witnesses said didn't take place, I don't think such a thing ever would have been brought to the Senate hearing under normal circumstances. This seems like grasping for straws in an effort to delay the confirmation.
@JohannesWiberg5 жыл бұрын
I think you need to read more sources before summing up the case like that. You're pretty much spouting GOP talking points there. I'm certainly not saying that the Dems are 100% trustworthy either, but "literally all the witnesses said didn't take place" is completely false. Also, while I don't think that anyone ougth to be convicted for a crime with weak to non existent evidence, I think that misrepresenting and lying under oath, losing ones temper that easily, and being extremely openly partisan, ought to be disqualifying behavior.
@scubamanbrian15185 жыл бұрын
Name one witness other than Ford who corroborates any part of her story at all. I’ll wait right here.
@TheRealValus5 жыл бұрын
@@scubamanbrian1518 They said they had no memory of it, not that it didn't happen. Describe a party you attended in the summer of 1982. I'll wait right here.
@imgpartner10 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful realisation for anybody who feels unhappy for some reason(s)! We CAN CHOOSE what we (want to) BELIEVE (e.g. because it's good for us and for other people), we can reprogram our memory. Unhappy childhood can be cured.
@jondunmore42687 жыл бұрын
14:12 -- Man, she is the real life version of Leo DiCaprio in INCEPTION, "implanting false memories"... DUUUUHNNN DUUUUUUHNN DUUUUHNNN DUUUUUUHNN
@abiramiramakrishnan89934 жыл бұрын
@@johnv6759 Eh it has Inception energy tho
@crystalhicks249 жыл бұрын
This really makes me think about how many of my childhood memories are actually accurate..
@BenWillock7 жыл бұрын
So this is why so many people (me included) thought that Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps used to be in a green packet not a blue one.
@parkerhix10577 жыл бұрын
no, what youre referring to is a thing called the mandela effect. look into it, its quite a conspiracy.
@CityofLadies6 жыл бұрын
walkers Spring onion Crisps were/are in a light green packet and used to be much more popular xx
@user-xn2hf9re8r6 жыл бұрын
brilliant work and so morally right. She sounds out of breathe bless her.
@mfn13115 жыл бұрын
This makes me feel like I have a lot of false memories from my childhood.
@akronymus10 жыл бұрын
I hope that Mrs. Loftus is listened to. I positively know a person who has been to therapists who (willingly or by accident) implanted her false memory - she remembers events that by proof never have taken place. I can tell how unpleasant it is when in severe points subjective memory is altered.
@JusticeForNicholeAlloway10 жыл бұрын
This has been accepted science for a LONG TIME. And the whole satanic cult thing was going on far more in the 1980s than the 1990s. If you research the Titus case, there's a case to be made that police just wanted a perp, they found *someone, so let's put him in jail.
@patrickholland9017 жыл бұрын
blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/what-experts-wish-you-knew-about-false-memories/ This came out in 2016, so it's still controversial and more accepted by clinicians than actual research psychologists.
@ananyaupadhya19745 жыл бұрын
BTW, she's Dr Loftus
@alessandrapeluzzi36515 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth Loftus i'm your biggest fan, first time i read about you in my general psychology book i never stopped quoting you to my friends. they hate you but i love you.seeing this ted in the racommanded made me incredibly happy thank you
@TheGrassdawg5 жыл бұрын
I enjoy your work. I have for the past 29 years done many backpacking/hiking trips 5-6 times a year with two dear friends. More than once two of us will be sharing a poignant memory of a particular event or trip when the other one will say, “Hey! Are you sure you are not collaging from trip x, y or z?” or “ I have no idea what you guys are talking about!”. All humor aside, I am grateful for the work you do and am sorry for all the flak a forward thinker like yourself has to endure.
@chill18711 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a similar study on the relationships between nostalgia and pessimistic attitudes. Sometimes when I look back on experiences, what I feel depends on my current mood or attitude. I might look back at a past relationship or experience with a substance, forgetting either the good parts or the bad parts depending on how I'm feeling at the time. I wonder if there is a correlation.
@idamay45902 жыл бұрын
you can read the LA Times article “Did Daddy Really Do It?” on the case of Marilyn Van Derbur for an alternative perspective on this, worth nothing how many times Loftus has been an expert witness for abusers and that she gave presumably this exact talk at TEDxCIA
@ryadachaibou80989 ай бұрын
I wish she would've spoken about the impact her work has on discrediting genuine victims of sexual violence. In case people here don't know, this woman used her theory during multiple rape and sexual assault trials, being called by the defense of Harvey Weinstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Michael Jackson, Ted Bundy and many more as a witness to explain her theory and cast doubt on the accusations.
@Mother.in.the.Jungle4 ай бұрын
Admittedly, I’m a little confused. Didn’t you say he was at a restaurant with his fiancé when this rape occurred? Was there no receipt, from him or the restaurant’s records, nor a witness who saw him? It seems there would be someone to back up his story, doesn’t it?
@Xxbte96xX7 жыл бұрын
This is incredibly eye opening.
@TheSkepticSkwerl5 жыл бұрын
I've known this for a while. And it just sickens me of how many innocent people are likely in jail due to this. Evidence needs to stack up. And juries don't want to be there and usually are uneducated especially on scientific and critical thinking. Our system is no good and was invented 100's if not 1000's of years ago. Very saddening indeed.
@krishdoesitlikeaboss9 жыл бұрын
This study is so cool! we looked at it during my IB psychology class and ill hopefully be able to use it later on. Thanks Elizabeth :)
@samanthapeters29725 жыл бұрын
Some memories aren't completely false. Sometimes they just fill in the gaps. Example: I once fainted. Half my friends said "you eyes rolled to the back of your head, and you swallowed your tongue. The other half of my friends said "your eyes were darting side to side, and you were gasping for air while shrieking." I told my neurologist. He said "you can't swallow your tongue, but it can block the airway near your throat. It sounds like you were taking in very deep breaths. Sometimes when a person suddenly takes in a very deep breath, it can sound like a high pitch scream. Your eyes might have been flickering. That's when the eyeballs go back a bit, and the eyelids blink fast." I don't know what happened. But my throat was irritated, and my eye sockets had a dull pain. I have to fill in the gaps of what happened to me. I choose the doctor's Therory.
@motucker444 жыл бұрын
“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.”
@CityofLadies6 жыл бұрын
This woman is a courageous defender of truth. lots of love!
@grantbassingthwaighte26185 жыл бұрын
I think I have OCD and I think my mind makes up stuff that never happened in the past making some memories worse than they actually were, or making up memories completely.
@jimebt5 жыл бұрын
I feel this too. About a month ago, I did a barely visible scratch on my car. I was really upset about this. Then I went on a trip for a few days and kept thinking about it and stressing over it a lot. I would constantly try to remember the scratch and each time I remembered a bigger scratch. When I got back from the trip and finally saw my car again, the scratch was so hard to find and so small it made me feel like something was wrong with my memory!
@harrisonwintergreen11475 жыл бұрын
to quote Jim Hopper, PhD, of Harvard Medical School on Loftus: You may have heard of Dr. Loftus, and seen her quoted approvingly and uncritically in the popular media. No doubt, as reported in the media, she has prevented some wrongly accused people from being unjustly convicted. She has also played a valuable role by bringing attention and accountability to bear on some irresponsible practices by some incompetent therapists. Yet Dr. Loftus has also claimed that recovered memory is a ‘myth,’ and that the majority of such memories are false and implanted by therapists. Unfortunately, many reporters and journalists have failed to critically evaluate her claims. Nor have they addressed three crucial facts about her work: Loftus herself conducted and published a study in which nearly one in five women who reported childhood sexual abuse also reported completely forgetting the abuse for some period of time and recovering the memory of it later. Loftus misrepresented the facts of a legal case in a scholarly paper and, after finally apologizing to the victim of her misrepresentations, continued to promote the article with falsehoods. (See Consider the Evidence for Elizabeth Loftus’ Scholarship and Accuracy, by Jennifer Hoult, whose case Loftus misrepresented.) Loftus was aware that those who study traumatic memory had by the early 1990s, based on a great deal of research and clinical experience, used the construct of dissociation to account for the majority of recovered memories. However, she continued to focus on and attack ‘repression’ and ‘repressed memories,’ which has the effect of confusing and misleading many people. www.jimhopper.com/child-abuse/recovered-memories/scientific-research/#elizabeth-loftus
@jomcc53574 ай бұрын
Why is it always traumatizing things scientists do to children for experiments? Instead of planting false memories of a child getting bit by a dog or almost drowning, could they not have given them joyful false memories? Something like went to Disney Land four times and met all Mickey Mouse characters, or first place in a t-ball tournament.. As long as they remember the false event then it works, it doesn't always have to end with children needing years of therapy.
@MissLucianaEspindola8 жыл бұрын
This was absolutely worth my time! I agree in every matter. But I would like to see some investigation about planting *happy* false memories. I suspect that happy memories are more difficult to plant, since people overrate their misery and sadness, and happy moments are usually just forgotten. Anyway, I like this trend of research very much! Hope to work with it sometime! :)
@GaaraSama19838 жыл бұрын
I don't know it it's overrating, but what I know from my basic neuroscience knowledge is that our brain saves negative experiences "stronger". It's a mechanism so we protect ourselves better to not make or allow the same experiences over and over. On the other side traumatic experiences are moved to the subconscious for the purpose of not going insane. And now stop with your Inception world domination schemes :)
@MissLucianaEspindola8 жыл бұрын
Shame on me! My plan was discovered! :P :)
@justinlacek14817 жыл бұрын
Luciana Espindola Her "ethical arguments" were very bad to be honest. I agree that the ends justify the means, and that this is good research, but her argument about parents do X, therefore X is good, etc., was just bad. We just watched most of this video in my psychology class (im a philosophy major) and I'm just sitting there thinking like, jeez, just stop.
@MissLucianaEspindola7 жыл бұрын
Well, Justin... I would like to hear a bit more from you about why this video is bad. I saw it 8 months ago and really don't remember the details. If you are willing to discuss (and I bet you are, since you are a major in philosophy) I would gladly watch it again and discuss it with you. But by my own comment, I believe there is something we strongly disagree about this video, since (apparently) I never thought "jeez, just stop". Anyway, I also don't agree with the "X parenting" observation (and I don't remember it this way), which makes me wonder what difference would it make to you to watch this video until the end instead of most of it. I have no formal instruction in philosophy (I'm a physicist with major in computer science), but I have some friend philosophers whom I use to have some beers and discuss about everything. I also had a psychologist who always told me I should have been a psychologist, not a physicist. Well, I guess our talk would be fun.
@rdizzy17 жыл бұрын
That wasn't really her argument at all, her argument was to the person that said they shouldn't do it because it requires parents to lie to their kids, and she replied with a picture of santa, which is true, parents like to their kids alot, in many ways.
@starlett538 жыл бұрын
Memory is such an amazing and vast field of study. You go girl! 📖
@reeju91252 жыл бұрын
So true, we are naturally social beings, moreover when we've experienced something. Understandably, we crave for help, protection and group acknowledgement. This makes us susceptible to suggestions and find comfort when others chime in. Worst, the more people who want to help, the more convulted memory turns.
@mojosbigsticks7 жыл бұрын
I was given a self-help book years ago which suggested that, even if you only think you might have been abused, you certainly were. You should indulge that belief, dive into it, bring up all the repressed memories which you must have. If you don't find any, dive deeper until you do. No matter that everyone around you says it didn't happen and there's no evidence for it, you have to believe you're a victim of abuse or your life won't improve. The whole concept terrified me.
@jackgriffiths78418 жыл бұрын
Did she win the court case after and was the accused mother actually innocent?
@Yorushima3 жыл бұрын
Pretty late to reply but might as well: Regarding the court case (Taus v. Loftus), Loftus mostly won. 21 causes of action, 20 dismissed as SLAPP (sue until they give up, not because you are right), last one valid. Taus had to choose between dropping the case or facing hundreds of thousands in losses (went with the former obviously, had to pay for the legal fees), Loftus's insurance paid several thousand in nuisance fees because of that one infraction (Loftus claimed to be someone she wasn't when interviewing the Taus's foster-mom). Regarding the accused mother (Jane Doe Case), initial verdict put the bio-mother as guilty and as a result she lost the custody battle. After the case was done and the results published, Loftus's later investigation added that there was quite a bit of argument (including accusation of sexual abuse) during the parents' separation and suggests the father and step-mother indoctrinated the daughter (possibly unintentionally) to believe she had been sexually abused by the bio-mother. Ultimately the bio-mother was concluded as innocent but by that point in time the decision was made and the damage was done long ago (and even if she had won, the indoctrination would have the daughter favor the father instead anyways).
@firstlast13575 жыл бұрын
In Canada a radio host won a case of being falsely accused of sexual abuse by two women,, and even it has been proved that the women colluded against him and lied he lost his job and reputation.
@dessertstorm74765 жыл бұрын
if they colluded wasn't it intentional rather than a case of false memory?
@chinookvalley5 жыл бұрын
@@dessertstorm7476 Who said anything about false memory?
@dessertstorm74765 жыл бұрын
Nobody, which is why I asked the question. The video is about false memories, the false rape allegation is the example she used. Seems irrelevant to bring up other false rape allegations which have nothing to do with false memory. The topic isn't rape allegations it's false memories.
@DeniseEggertwaterlily5 жыл бұрын
Where was the forensic evidence?
@realSimoneCherie Жыл бұрын
Also… falsely accused people have every right to sue for civil damages. There will be permanent damage done to your income, reputation and prospects, and even if you’re formally exonerated you still suffer social consequences and fear/stigma of having been accused
@okebaram7 ай бұрын
Dealing with a loved one currently in jail convicted falsely and first-hand knowledge revealing tons of people are convicted by our judicial system or forced to sign guilty pleas for things never committed, this makes my heart heavy, very heavy. So many innocent lives are damaged or destroyed, and regular people are unaware.
@OwenK20235 ай бұрын
If you’re not here for psychology, you’re wrong
@tinali85825 жыл бұрын
I believe what she did is good work. However I found it very inconsistent when she discussed about repercussion of planting false memories. When defending her own experiment technique she said 'it's temporary discomfort that some of the subjects might experience...' and later said there is a long lasting repercussion effect from false negative memories. If it's her value that those scientific studies out-weigh the negative utility caused by the study, I'm perfectly fine with that. However I don't like how her choice of words decreased perceived damage by planting false memories as a study method.
@LCMurphy110 жыл бұрын
The TED audience should be advised that Dr. Loftus' account of the lawsuit filed against her in 2003 is neither a full description of her activities, not an accurate description of the resolution of the case. A discussion of Taus v. Loftus by seven authors, including the plaintiff, can be found online at the "Journal of Interpersonal Violence" website.
@4TIMESAYEAR5 жыл бұрын
The mind is a powerful thing. Not just with memory, but beliefs. Things become self fulfilling prophecies.
@Weigazod4 жыл бұрын
"Use it wisely"
@sr2291 Жыл бұрын
Who has the expertise to tell me that my own memories are false?
@blakelarsen37435 ай бұрын
It’s also widely known and accepted that in severe trauma, a common thing our brains do is dissociate. The event goes in your subconscious and often will later come out for varying reasons. This talk is not addressing that. She has testified over 300 times for the defendant in sexual abuse cases, and basically denies that dissociative amnesia is real, yet says she knows it’s very real in some of her publications.
@Marianna-js3ji5 ай бұрын
@@blakelarsen3743 Yes she admitted to recalling a repressed memory in her book. How would she know if my memories are different than how the incidents occurred?
@EustresАй бұрын
@@Marianna-js3ji Corroboration, if we are talking about something that involved only yourself then no one but yourself can know and in that case asking that question is pointless. In the case its an event that involved you and other people, your story should be mostly the same with other people and if not,, why are there inconsistencies?
@EustresАй бұрын
@@blakelarsen3743 Those two statements can be true at the same time. I can deny dissociative amnesia is real as a condition, pathology or diagnosis. And then i can claim it is a phenomenon or concept in literature. But until today we still don't have solid, conclusive evidence of dissociative amnesia. We have case studies, one RCT and a few systematic reviews. To claim it as a diagnosis with confidence would take a lot of face.
@Marianna-js3jiАй бұрын
@Eustres Some of my memories have been proven by documents I found online about my abuser and the name of a girls home I was staying at back then. He also ran ads in an alternative newspaper, and the phone number matches his name in the local phone book. So it's him. I can't prove he abused me but my symptoms match that type of abuse according to SSI doctors. I am still collecting evidence.
@ronin48192 жыл бұрын
Who else is watching this for their psychology class?
@tylerelmelliti34009 ай бұрын
me
@jesseleyba31913 жыл бұрын
One day when I was visiting my mother, she was helping me with my hair real quick(it was long during this time) and she said i had a white hair spot. She took a picture and showed me it. I asked her to send it to me but she never did. Every time I asked about it, she said that never happened but she won't even look on her phone to see. I am dead positive that this happened but she says it didn't. I think it's just crazy if I imagined the whole thing.
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@CyanBlackflower6 жыл бұрын
People who know me well, if they are truthful (I am quite selective of whom I call "Friend") will ALL give me this one benefit - I give credit where it is due - and for years that could swing in diametrically opposed - Both ways, to get to the point. Recently I find myself often critical rather than complimentary of the actions of my fellow humans - actions of course which to me were in some way remarkable. THIS is NOT resulting from any cynical attitude nor some misconstructed egotistical conceit, but rather, I think, the idea that good deeds, regardless of magnitude, stand up for themselves and do not require as much attention as those which are reprehensible. THIS woman, E. Loftus - (Bless Her) reminds me, not fast enough that I am so inaccurate in my presumption. Not the leastwise is the fact that it is coinciding with a similar event I experienced just 3 days ago prior to my writing this post. No I was not accused of raping, killing, or worse... I was sitting in a city park with 2 good friends - who know well what my faults are - I know them too, and I am accepting of them. I AIM to be a good person. Yes I sometimes screw up, and when I do - I have what I think is good reason...I will admit when I am wrong - IF I feel so in my CORE. ...So when a woman whom I have NEVER met before walking her dog, approached us and began a friendly discourse - suddenly, with no provocation, claimed that she had met me last week when I seriously insulted her, by telling her that her cigarette smoking was an offence to the air decent people breathe...(Triggered by my lighting up one...) ...She became quite irate, and in spite of my assurance that what she was saying was virtually impossible in my nature, nor my Memory - which has not yet malfunctioned as described in this vid... - that she had me confused with someone else, and even the confirmation of my friends, who know me well - and the fact that this woman is NEW to the neighbourhood, and talks to everyone she meets (Approx 55 yo - possibly drinks a lot, from my guess) Was all in vain. She began shouting at me CERTAIN of her conviction that I was her offender - Her son died of lung cancer, being a main fortification of her absolute conviction of MY guilt...My feeling and point here is that there is a SERIOUS flaw, in the way most people evaluate reality and the world in which we live. This could happen to ANYONE at ANY time, for almost ANY REASON. It is REASON which is floundering, and giving way to IRRATIONAL thought paradigms, when our current society can LEAST afford to lose it. Particularly when irrationality is sanctioned yet unacceptable component of our FORENSIC process(Dis) ease...
@jacquesmovies36338 жыл бұрын
Mandela Effect is finally solved. Our memories alter our reality. when our memory changes so does our reality. That is why it feels like reality changed it is because we ourselves are being changed. This explains why islands and land marks, geography changes, it is because it changes in our minds. This means I don't have to worry about realities merging anymore, it is because nothing has changed to begin with.
@Well_possibly7 жыл бұрын
I like your comment....and seeking evidence to support that - the mandela effect isn't real - is what lead me to this video! I wish everyone would view this video. It would help improve many juries...before they present a verdict!
@jacquesmovies36337 жыл бұрын
Actually It might be real. I am sorry. I have watched a few monthes ago. A video Clip where Tom Hanks actually says "Houston we had a problem." I was bummed out when he actually said that. Then videos reporting that it changed back. I had to see this for myself. I was watching the same video but this time. Tom Hanks says "Houston we have a problem" I wanted to compare the two videos but it turned out to be the same video. The same thing happened to the flintstones. For a few months, the flinstones was missing its T. Now it has its T back in its name. I am afraid that my conclusion is that its real. Reality Shifts just might be real.
@Well_possibly7 жыл бұрын
Jacque's Movies Jacque, thank you for the feedback. While I'm still very skeptical, I just came across one where the definition for a word is very different than my clear memories of it. I remember a professor telling my class (many years ago) a specific definition for a word. I recall my Princeton educated relative using the same definition soon after that. I just looked it up in an online dictionary, and the definition is practically the opposite from those memories! It would take a lot of evidence for me to be convinced that all these 'memories' aren't just our imperfect minds having false memories. The scientific evidence is what I value more than my own memories! Your examples do sound interesting, though.
@cantopia5 жыл бұрын
@@jacquesmovies3633 Really............
@davebates998610 жыл бұрын
When she said about asparagus I knew she was up to no good. Here's my advice to parents; in a world so full of manipulative deceit, you owe to your children to do the best you can to tell them the truth so they are more able to make their own informed decisions in life as the individuals they are.
@user-dk8gn8js6o Жыл бұрын
It was great to say at the end: "Memory - like liberty - is a fragile thing"! Need to remember!)
@guardianoftruth1468 Жыл бұрын
False Memory implanting is called Marketing 101.
@tthompson92445 жыл бұрын
I remember over twenty years ago when I first read an article about this woman and I thought that finally someone was questioning the repressed memory madness that was everywhere in the news then. Loftus is a scientist hero. Her work has kept a lot of people from harm.
@lukethegreat1019 жыл бұрын
I would love to have her ethics board....
@skippress5 жыл бұрын
What a fabulous lecture. As a former $cientologist who dealt with hearing all sorts of wacky "memories" from Hubbard and followers, this explains a lot.
@eilechaa5 жыл бұрын
i found her through Weiten's psychology book chapter about memory and then i recognizes she was also featured in Brain games episode about false memory. trully legend
@sugarpump5 жыл бұрын
Excellent food for thought as I head to the courtroom to be a witness.
@thetruthofitall.maxine11 ай бұрын
Her science is not always done very scientifically./ Infact there is now more research in favour of tramatic repressed memory than false memory (which has poor research). The original 'lost in the mall' study was very poorly done. She is not a specialist in traumatic memory repression or in trauma psychotherapy and it is common that we block traumatic events and they can return unexpectedly - triggered by an event, or in places like therapy where you are talking about your childhood. The danger with what she says, is that many real victims of abuse, can be and have been dismissed. What reason would a therapist have for planting false memory, especially such dark memories, in their patients? That doesn't make sense - espeically with numbers she is suggesting. There is so much more science that she doesn't mention and is not really honest in gaps in her own knowledge. She is a clinical psychologist who has never seen patients. Do her studies see how long these 'false memories' she planted in people last for? 1 year? 5 years? etc. Still a lot of unanswered questions/ gaps in the science and a lot of harm to trauma survivors. Elizabeth Loftus and her false memory syndrome has been used in the cases of Harvey Weinstein, OJ Simpson, Bill Crosby etc...I am surprised that TED supported such poor research that most professionals refute. This 'research' supports perpetrators and in fact many of Elizabeth's support from such organisations as the Foundation of False Memory Syndrome (which dissolved in 2019 and for which Elizabeth was on the board) - are actually accused parents. The foundation was set up by accused parents. This in itself says something. There are occasions of false accusations of course, but there can be many reasons for this. This does become evidence that false memory syndrome is everywhere - particulary in CSA, SRA etc.
@johncaze75711 ай бұрын
But wouldn't it be hard to tell if someone 's memories are really true or not?
@thetruthofitall.maxine11 ай бұрын
@@johncaze757 read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. But she dismisses children who have been severely abused and there's a lack of logic. So across the world there are now testimonies from many in different countries of adults who were abused in satanic rituals as children They haven't known each other and yet there are common threads which would be the case in ritualistic harm. Some of it is far too extreme to make up. And until they remembered there was evidence in their behaviour, choice, fears, and how their physically respond at certain times. A child survives and functions by suppressing memory at the time. It's a survival technique. For myself 3 years ago I heard a name mentioned, my body froze, I could move, I felt terror. Once I was back from that I asked who that person was and as I listened my body sensations were full of memories of abuse. I was 1 years old so I didn't have words but I know something happened. There are plenty of talks from trauma specialists (which she isn't) dismissing false memory. It's not even recognised as a condition by the psychiatric organisations or medical profession. If you research - there are talks on YT. Anneke Lucas did talk this summer on false memory syndrome and many other...this idea has caused huge harm to victims. I'm not sure why she wants to continue with this lie, or defend perpetrators, ...maybe because she became well known through it, but it's wrong. Yes, sometimes different siblings recall events differently as they experience the same event differently and occasionally people have lied. But the truth is child abuse is far too common, many of us have repressed memories, but it doesn't mean the memories aren't real because it took us 30 years to remember. Repressed Traumatic memories is recognised. False memory is not. I'm surprised at TED really. I hope that helps.
@scotty9 жыл бұрын
Very powerful, thank you Elizabeth, good job.
@xavierxrc11 жыл бұрын
The brain is very complex and so are its outputs like memory. The Psychologist here wanted to stay on topic, but there are several types of memory. The type of memory she is talking about is episodic (of events, a day at the mall). The brain has other memory abilities like procedual (of motor skills). You may not remember they day you learned to button your shirt or tie your shoe, but you can do it. Semantic memory (logical memory - of facts - gravity pulls down) is the hardest to manipulate.
@the.mr.beacher5 жыл бұрын
Dr. Loftus should be all over the news right now. This is gold!
@liamwinter45125 жыл бұрын
Investigative journalism needs to make a tsunami like come back into the publics eye.
@emelieyeee11398 ай бұрын
My teacher played this in the classroom and had an already very high volume on, and then with this clip where she almost screams, it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. She probably had great thing to say but everyones ears were bleeding and those lucky enough found headphones. We asked the teacher multiple times to lower the volume and she never did.
@TempestPoet5 жыл бұрын
It's common practice in court to use suggestive information to influence a witnesses mind and recollection of what happened. That is the real crime here in my opinion.