(November 11, 2015 at 5:18 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I am aware of many of the studies you cited, and do not come to the same conclusion that witness testimony is unreliable. But I do have a question for you. Do you live believing that most of your memories of your life are largely inaccurate and unreliable to the truth? I think we can all point to areas where we where mistaken in memory or we remember something differently from someone else. But do you think that your picture of yourself is for the most part accurate?
Evidence shows me that my memories are nebulous abstractions, even though I remember them as being concrete. For example, I have vivid memories of how people looked on certain days-- and then I look at a photograph, and think wow! that's really not how I remembered it.
I also know, through learning about psychology, how unreliable memories are, and that many childhood memories aren't memories at all, but reconstructions of things our parents have told us.
