{"id":1382,"date":"2015-02-13T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:19:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:19:05","slug":"the-shocking-ease-of-installing-lost-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"The shocking ease of installing &#8216;lost memories&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150213Doctorow.jpg\" alt=\"150213Doctorow\" width=\"260\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150213Doctorow.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150213Doctorow-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Feb. 13, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPsychologists terminated a study (of 70 students at a Canadian university) that showed the ease of implanting false memories of committing terrible, violent crimes in the recent past \u2013 because some subjects couldn&#8217;t be convinced that they hadn&#8217;t committed the crime after they were told the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/02\/09\/police-interrogation-technique.html\" target=\"_blank\">Police interrogation techniques generate false memories\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/02\/09\/police-interrogation-technique.html\" target=\"_blank\">of committing crimes<\/a>\u201d by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing (Feb. 9)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">More on this recent study from Sarah Barmak at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/insight\/2015\/02\/08\/planting-false-memories-fairly-easy-psychologists-find.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIf subjects said they couldn\u2019t remember the false event, questioners reassured them they would be able to retrieve their \u2018lost memories\u2019 if they tried hard enough. If they began to \u2018remember,\u2019 experimenters asked for more detail. Do you recall any images? How did you feel? Visualize what it might have been like, they said, and the memory will come back to you&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cLost memories,\u201d of course, were the fool\u2019s gold mined so relentlessly by the prosecution therapists in the Little Rascals Day Care case. Remarkably, it took only three 40-minute sessions for the Canadian researchers to corrupt the memories of fully 70 percent of their college-age subjects \u2013 the Little Rascals children required\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1064\">months of implantation<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 13, 2015 \u201cPsychologists terminated a study (of 70 students at a Canadian university) that showed the ease of implanting false memories of committing terrible, violent crimes in the recent past \u2013 because some subjects couldn&#8217;t be convinced that they hadn&#8217;t committed the crime after they were told the truth.\u201d \u2013 From \u201cPolice interrogation techniques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}