The misinformation effect | Elizabeth Loftus | Nobel Prize Summit 2023

Elizabeth Loftus, psychologist and distinguished professor, University of California, Irvine, takes the audience at the Nobel Prize Summit 2023 inside the effect misinformation has on our brains, including the limits of human memory.
About Nobel Prize Summit 2023:
How can we build trust in truth, facts and scientific evidence so that we can create a hopeful future for all?
Misinformation is eroding our trust in science and runs the risk of becoming one of the greatest threats to our society today.
This year’s Nobel Prize Summit brought together laureates, leading experts and the public in a conversation on how we can combat misinformation, restore trust in science and create a hopeful future.
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Alliance4Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Deliberative Democracy Lab at the Stanford Center on Democracy; Development and the Rule of Law, Digital Public Goods Alliance, Embassy of Sweden to the U.S., Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, International Panel on the Information Environment, Media Literacy Now, National Science Foundation, PeaceTech Lab, SkillsVR, S&R Evermay, Smithsonian Science Education Center, Stockholm Resilience Center/Beijer Institute, The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, The Mercury Project, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, United Nations Development Programme, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Wikimedia DC.
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[@jgibbs6159]

The SERE study she refers to (Morgan et. al, 2012) was the best example (in my opinion) of her theories related to post event manipulation - and peer influence. These were 861 active duty special operators enduring highly stressful events for 3 days i.e., physical and mental torture, and they were mislead as easily as undergrads in previous psychology studies on campus. Dr. Loftus was well beyond her peers with the work she has done on memory; and specifically disinformation. Only recently, have cognitive psychologists started to understand what she knew 30 years ago - that memory is malleable, and goes through a process that consolidates short-term memory into long-term memory - and.... when new information is presented to the old memory, it reconsolidates the memory with the new information. and changes the underlying memory - even when the information is known to be false. This process is never ending. Consequently, no memory is immune to change, and we are all vulnerable.

[@MichaelKlinePhotoVideo]

The application of misinformation is like it's on steroids these days. Great introductory talk and bringing forth awareness to the phenomenon.

[@DS-nv8bi]

taking a look at this study using the information that Dr. Gabor Mate presents in his research on childhood trauma
i am intrigued thinking about what number of the people in your study have experienced
childhood trauma. Gabor presents his observations of his patients illnesses with the connection to childhood trauma and notes to other doctors who have stated these same connections.
unresolved childhood trauma is not being considered in the formation of disease as the medical school does not use these findings in its curriculum.
i entertain the thought that the findings would show that the people who formed a memory or belief of the misinformation have experienced trauma in their life

[@shivanirajvansi2385]

Nice research of madam Elizabeth.

[@nobodieshome_]

This should be removed from the internet. The False Memory association closed in 2019 and she’s never given proof. This is irresponsible and harmful

[@iecl-sq3lt]

There is a very important case of Lynn Crook she has a book called False Memories: The Deception That Silenced Millions By Lynn Crook. She criticizes the topic of "false memories", please investigate the case I mentioned above, it is very important since it demolishes several arguments that many people are believing, and that cause harm

[@sr2291]

I was abused as a teen, and I have validated information online about my abuser. Just found another one a few days ago. Lofthus is ridiculous.

[@AG-ok7no]

What a crock

[@Marianna-js3ji]

Could you purposely manipulate someone? Sure. So what is the point?