"Memory 'works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page,' Loftus said in a recent speech. 'You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.'"
— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)
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May 19, 2014
Metaphor
"Memory 'works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page,' Loftus said in a recent speech. 'You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.'"
Metaphor in Context
"I was crying and I remember that day ... I though I'd never see my family again," one participant said, in a taped interview (available on YouTube). "An older man approached me. ... He had a flannel shirt on. lll I remember my mom told me never to do that again." These assertions were delivered with a precision and a certainty that few people could have doubted, except that there was no man in a flannel shirt and no admonition from the subject's mother. Memory "works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page," Loftus said in a recent speech. "You can go in there and change it, but so can other people."
(p. 44)
(p. 44)
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Citation
Michael Specter, "Partial Recall," The New Yorker (May 19, 2014): 38-48.
Date of Entry
05/20/2014
