> On 4 April 2008 Michael Sylvester wrote: > > >Hillary said that she misspoke about coming under gun fire and going > >in a docking mode when she visited Bosnia as First lady. Would this > >be considered a false memory, a reconstucted memory, or a flashbulb > >memory, or none of these?
Allen Esterson replied: > A fascinating question, Michael. I think that into the mix should be placed > the fact that in her book *Living History* published five years ago, she > actually wrote about the 1996 Tuzla incident, reporting it very > differently, with nothing about running and ducking under sniper fire, > according to the following: > > "Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced > to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have > time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked > during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find." > > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/25/11268/8795/297/483805 > > That raises the question of how a memory of meeting local children that was > later written down some six years after the event could be transformed into > her not being able to stop, and running and ducking under sniper fire. > I was ready to concede on the basis of this post that Hillary was a victim of false memory rather than lying, not that this excuse would be much better for her, politically speaking. Then I clicked on the url Allen gave, which I assumed provided an excerpt from Hillary's book. It didn't. Instead it contained the assertion of someone familiar with Bosnia that the war was long over when Hillary arrived in Tuzla and snipers were never a problem anyway at that airport. This calls into question not only Hillary's later, elaborated report of coming under fire, but the more restrained but apparently still fictional account reported five years earlier in her book. Bill from Ockham tells us that lying remains the top explanation here, that Hillary started with a lie, and then moved on to a more extensive version of it. Practice makes perfect, perhaps. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
