Tuesday, February 28. 2006

Misty Water-Colored Memories

Posted by Diane C. in U.S. Politics at 13:32

From Talking Points Memo:


Ignorance of the law is no defense. How about ignorance about what you did?


In the department of 'you can't make this stuff up' Scooter Libby, lawyer, foreign policy hand, author and Dick Cheney's personal one-man heat shield, has hired a memory loss expert to assist in his defense.


Harvard psychology professor Daniel L. Schacter is the guy who got the call.


Maybe Scooter can consult one of Schacter's book The Seven Sins of Memory.


As you know Harvard prof's don't come cheap and if you are in a particularly generous mood you can go Libbey's website and donate for his defense. However there is no PayPal tip jar.

If you are an aging boomer as I am you might take time to ponder this from Prof Schacter's webpage.

Recent evidence from our laboratory suggests that people can reduce false memories by invoking a distinctiveness heuristic -- a mode of responding in which people demand access to distinctive information before deciding that a test item is "old".

Sounds better than I had a senior moment.

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