How Memories are Distorted and Invented:


	How Memories are Distorted and Invented:

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad45d5f2-642e-42d6-838b-567be9a83a45/340F7A2D-B1D3-4A7B-9FA9-BCBDED001E9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/how-memories-are-distorted-and-invented.php" href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/how-memories-are-distorted-and-invented.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spring.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/how-memories-are-distorted-and-invented.php">One evening in 1975 an unsuspecting Australian psychologist, Donald M. Thomson, walked into a television studio to discuss the psychology of eyewitness testimony. Little did he know that at the very moment he was discussing how people can best remember the faces of criminals, there was someone encoding his own face as a rapist.<SPAN class="fullpost"><BR /><BR /><DIV>The day after the television broadcast Thomson was picked up by local police. He was told that last night a woman was raped and left unconscious in her apartment. She had named Thomson as her attacker. </DIV><BR /><DIV>Thomson was shocked, but had a watertight alibi. He had been on television at the time of the attack and in the presence of the assistant commissioner of police.</DIV><BR /><DIV>It seemed that the victim had been watching Thomson on television just prior to being attacked</DIV></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/how-memories-are-distorted-and-invented.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spring.org.uk/img/5C58991D-735D-4CA9-ABC4-167A12916464" alt="Distorted Face" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/how-memories-are-distorted-and-invented.php"><H1>How Memories are Distorted and Invented: Misattribution 
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