Julia Shaw
Dr Julia Shaw's segment on implanting false memories from the NOVA PBC documentary "Memory Hackers".
updated 8 years ago
Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist at UCL, BBC science presenter, and the author of multiple books. She also has a master's degree in Queer History.
In this short talk, she covers many bi topics, including the history and definition of bisexuality, research on hypersexualisation, bisexual asylum seekers, and how most bisexual people see their sexuality is a gift.
What is it about “evil" that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the people who commit them.
Dr. Julia Shaw’s scientific exploration breaks down evil into its individual components, and dissects each piece. She shows us that the same dispositions that make us capable of heinous crimes may also work to our advantage. And, if evil is within all of us, should it be said to exist at all?
In Evil, Shaw uses a compelling mix of science, popular culture, and real life examples to break down timely and important issues. How similar is your brain to a psychopath's? How many people have murder fantasies? Can A.I. be evil? Do your sexual proclivities make you a bad person? Who becomes a terrorist?
This is a wide-ranging exploration into a fascinating, darkly compelling subject.
"Julia Shaw has crafted a brilliant panorama that elucidates humanity's dark side in her masterpiece, EVIL. This science-based foundation for studying the minds of sadists, mass murderers, freaks and creeps, as well the new role of tech in promoting evil is presented in a totally engaging fashion... for understanding the many evils around us (and sometimes in us) along with the monumental evil of mass apathy of doing nothing when we should stand up, speak out, and take wise and effective actions" - Prof Phillip Zimbardo
Video animation by http://jociejuritz.com.
Die Kriminalpsychologin und Bestsellerautorin Julia Shaw leuchtet die Abgründe unserer Psyche aus.
Von Psychopathen wie Charles Manson oder Serienmördern wie Jack the Ripper geht eine unheimliche Faszination aus. Doch woher kommt sie?
Und warum verdrängen wir so gern das alltäglichere Böse – von den eigenen Gewaltphantasien bis zum Machtmissbrauch im Büro?
Die Kriminalpsychologin und Bestsellerautorin Julia Shaw taucht das Phänomen des Bösen in neues Licht.
Shaw sucht und findet das Böse nicht nur in den Gehirnen von Massenmördern, sondern in jedem von uns. Und sie erläutert mithilfe psychologischer Fallstudien und neuester neurowissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, wie wir uns mit unserer dunklen Seite versöhnen.
Buy her debut book "The Memory Illusion" at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Illusion-Remembering-Forgetting-Science/dp/184794762X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465075354&sr=8-1&keywords=the+memory+illusion
Don't like Amazon? You can also buy her book at;
Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/the-memory-illusion/julia-shaw/9781847947628
Or Foyles: http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/philosophy-psychology-social-sciences/the-memory-illusion-remembering,julia-shaw-9781847947628
In her book, The Memory Illusion (appearing 16-06-16), Dr Julia Shaw uses the latest research to show the astonishing variety of ways in which our memories can be led astray.
Dr Shaw shows why we can sometimes misappropriate other people's memories, subsequently believing them to be our own. She explains how police officers can imprison an innocent man for life on the basis of many denials and just one confession.
She demonstrates the way radically false memories can be deliberately implanted, leading people to believe that they had tea with Prince Charles, or committed crimes that never happened.
And she reveals how, in spite of all this, we can improve our memory through simple awareness of its fallibility.
Fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, The Memory Illusion offers a unique insight into the human brain, challenging you to question how much you can ever truly know about yourself.
The Memory Illusion book will be available in 2016 in English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Russian, Czech, and Serbian.
Follow @drjuliashaw on Twitter, or visit her personal website here: http://www.drjuliashaw.com
Animation by Jocie Juritz: http://www.jociejuritz.co.uk