<nettime> remember me?

[christian brutsch <brutsch@gmx.net>]

remember me? or freud, or all the others? yet another view on the rule 
of media and the role of the milions of people i sure did not only see 
on tv - or did i?
--chris

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 From kissing frogs to demonic possession, people are led to believe 
they experienced the improbable

Irvine, Calif. -- During a recent study of memory recall and the use of 
suggestive interviewing, UC Irvine cognitive psychologist Elizabeth 
Loftus successfully planted false memories in volunteers of several 
study groups -- memories that included such unlikely events as kissing 
frogs, shaking hands with Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, and witnessing a 
demonic possession...

more: <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-02/uoc--fkf021303.php>

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