Psychological Science Brown Bag

MEETING TODAY TO DISCUSS:

Brian Williams and the Malleability of Human Memory

Please join us this Friday, February 27th, for a discussion of the reliability and malleability of human memory.

We will meet on Friday from 12:20-1:20 in Carnegie 101. This week, we invite you to please bring your own lunch.

You may have been following the recent case of Brian Williams (the NBC News anchor who claimed he was in a helicopter crash in Iraq in 2003, only to be exposed a few weeks ago as having fabricated this version of events). Did he lie to make himself look better, or is it possible for him to actually “remember” his version of events? What does this line of research say about witness testimonies?