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  "full_text": "Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 761 Filed 08/10/22 Page 135 of 246 LCGCmax4 Loftus - direct the problem is when you have post-event suggestion or intervention, people get very confident about their wrong answers, and you can see that even wrong answers or false information, false memories can be expressed with a high degree of confidence. Q. In connection with your experience and research, have you ever come across the term, rich false memories? A. Yes. Q. Could you please explain to the jury what that means. A. So going back, actually, to the typical eyewitness study, witnesses see an accident, they really saw the car go through a stop sign. Later on, you suggest it was a yield sign and many people will succumb to the suggestion. You have changed a detail in memory for an event that actually happened. But somewhere around the 1990s, researchers from around the world started to look at, could you plant an entire event into the minds of people for something that didn't happen, could you use enough suggestion that you would get people to construct whole events, and we and others have accomplished that, meaning other scientific laboratories, planting false memories that -- well, as I mentioned, you witnessed your parents have a physically violent fight or you were attacked by a vicious animal, or you had a serious indoor or outdoor accident, or you nearly drowned and had to be rescued by a lifeguard, or you committed a crime as a teenager SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00013994",
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