memory can be manipulated by photos- research


	memory can be manipulated by photos- research

wildcat

11-21-2007 6:21 AM

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memory, photography, doctoring, media, ethics

wildcat says:

“It’s potentially a form of human engineering that could be applied to us against our knowledge and against our wishes and we ought to be vigilant about it,”

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When presented with digitally altered images depicting the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing and a 2003 anti-war protest in Rome, participants in a new study by American and Italian researchers recalled the events as being bigger and more violent than they really were, suggesting that viewing doctored photographs might affect people’s memories of past public events.
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