On Fri, 15 May 2015 07:55:40 -0700, Rick Froman wrote:
Whenever I see a psych-related story in the NY Times, I wait to see
if Mike Palij will post it. He almost never fails but after the dress
color
post this morning, I thought that maybe he had overlooked this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/nyregion/witness-accounts-in-midtown-hammer-attack-show-the-power-of-false-memory.html
I plead guilty as charged. In my own defense, I have to admit:
(1) I gave a statistics final exam last night which I am recovering
from.
(2) There was also a paper due on the analysis of two experiments
and there were so many grandparents who died this week. Oh!
The Humanity!
(3) To be honest, I saw something about this story on TV but I did
not watch it to closely because the number of such attacks seemed
to have gone up, especially in NYC recently.
(4) The Shepard Smith Fox News foul-up about an eyewitness
who was describing WHAT HE WAS SEEING (i.e., a person
being shot by cop but that never happened) pretty much trumps
this but it is always useful to gather such instances.
(4) This particular story was not in the email news listing I get every
morning from the NY Times (I was actually saddened by the news
of the death of Blues Legend B.B. King, RIP).
(5) I scan the news.google.com "top news" page and while there was
a entry on the "dress" which was on the BBC website (where I found
out that Karl Gegenfurtner had done some of the research; another
former student of G. Sperling who survived the experience and has
prospered ;-) ;-) ;-) <- Just in case George sees this.
For punishment, please don't make me watch any reality shows,
especially ones involving Kardashians. The "Naked and Afraid"
series, however, has a certain carwreck attraction. Can't figure
out what rule they follow to blur the butts and when to leave them
fully exposed.
It is an interesting and brief real life example of false memory that
allows for video comparison to bystander reports.
Thanks for pointing this out, it will be useful in the cognitive
psychology
class.
The article quotes Dr. Strange
Boy! I can't wait until his Disney movie comes out. The TV movie that
featured a weird version of Dr. Strange blew smoke rings (insert your
own term here; see
http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Strange-Movie-Peter-Hooten/dp/6300182029/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1431703535&sr=1-3&keywords=Peter+Hooten).
Kinda like the old Captain American movies don't compare with
the new ones (see:
http://www.amazon.com/Captain-America-II-Death-Soon/dp/B005G5NPD8/ref=pd_bxgy_74_img_y
)
of John Jay and Dr. Loftus of UC Irvine for research context.
Ah, the usual suspects. Nice, nice, very nice. So many people in the
same device (i.e., research area).
Again, thanks.
-Mike Palij
New York University
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