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Shaw was born in [[Cologne]], [[Germany]] and grew up in [[Canada]]. In 2004 she started a BSc in psychology at the [[Simon Fraser University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories|title=False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes|last=Bryce|first=Emma|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> She went on to complete a Masters in Psychology and Law at [[Maastricht University]] in the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://mfl.global/speaker/julia-shaw/|title=Julia Shaw Speaker, Speeches, Booking Agent {{!}} MFL Global|work=MFL Global|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2009, she returned to Canada to and was awarded a PhD at the [[University of British Columbia]] entitled "Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Julia Shaw|last2=Stephen Porter|date=2015-03-01|title=Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614562862|journal=Psychological Science|language=en|volume=26|issue=3|pages=291–301|doi=10.1177/0956797614562862|issn=0956-7976}}</ref> Shaw remained in Canada, a lecturer at the [[University of Waterloo]] and the [[University of British Columbia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/drjuliashaw|title=LinkedIn - Dr Julia Shaw|last=Shaw|first=Julia|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> In 2013 she became Lecturer in forensic psychology at [[University of Bedfordshire]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ozy.com/acumen/she-can-convince-you-that-you-committed-a-crime/38915|title=Give This Woman 3 Hours and She'll Have You Confessing to a Crime You Didn't Commit|last=Siegel|first=Nathan|work=OZY|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en}}</ref> She joined [[London South Bank University]] as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in 2015, before becoming a honoray<ref>http://search2.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.html?query=j.shaw%40ucl.ac.uk&collection=website-meta&profile=_directory&tab=directory&sumbit=Go&start_rank=1</ref> Research Associate at [[University College London]] in 2017.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjuliashaw profile] at [[LinkedIn]] (retrieved 2016-09-26) </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people-finder/dr-julia-shaw|title=Dr Julia Shaw Senior Lecturer - Criminology|publisher=London South Bank University|language=en|access-date=2016-09-27|dead-url=yes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316162706/http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people-finder/dr-julia-shaw|archive-date=2017-03-16}}</ref>
Shaw was born in [[Cologne]], [[Germany]] and grew up in [[Canada]]. In 2004 she started a BSc in psychology at the [[Simon Fraser University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories|title=False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes|last=Bryce|first=Emma|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> She went on to complete a Masters in Psychology and Law at [[Maastricht University]] in the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://mfl.global/speaker/julia-shaw/|title=Julia Shaw Speaker, Speeches, Booking Agent {{!}} MFL Global|work=MFL Global|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2009, she returned to Canada to and was awarded a PhD at the [[University of British Columbia]] entitled "Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Julia Shaw|last2=Stephen Porter|date=2015-03-01|title=Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614562862|journal=Psychological Science|language=en|volume=26|issue=3|pages=291–301|doi=10.1177/0956797614562862|issn=0956-7976}}</ref> Shaw remained in Canada, a lecturer at the [[University of Waterloo]] and the [[University of British Columbia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/drjuliashaw|title=LinkedIn - Dr Julia Shaw|last=Shaw|first=Julia|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> In 2013 she became Lecturer in forensic psychology at [[University of Bedfordshire]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ozy.com/acumen/she-can-convince-you-that-you-committed-a-crime/38915|title=Give This Woman 3 Hours and She'll Have You Confessing to a Crime You Didn't Commit|last=Siegel|first=Nathan|work=OZY|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en}}</ref> She joined [[London South Bank University]] as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in 2015, before becoming a honoray<ref>http://search2.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.html?query=j.shaw%40ucl.ac.uk&collection=website-meta&profile=_directory&tab=directory&sumbit=Go&start_rank=1</ref> Research Associate at [[University College London]] in 2017.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjuliashaw profile] at [[LinkedIn]] (retrieved 2016-09-26) </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people-finder/dr-julia-shaw|title=Dr Julia Shaw Senior Lecturer - Criminology|publisher=London South Bank University|language=en|access-date=2016-09-27|dead-url=yes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316162706/http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people-finder/dr-julia-shaw|archive-date=2017-03-16}}</ref>


Shaw's expertise is in [[False memory syndrome|false memories]] and how law enforcement can use "tactics [that] may lead people to recall crimes that never occurred".<ref name=":0" /> In one of her studies, she succeeded to get 70% of the participants to create false memories or beliefs of events from their childhood that never took place, and this study was covered extensively in mainstream media.<ref>Douglas Starr: [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/false-memory-crime ''Remembering A Crime That You Didn’t Commit'']. The New Yorker, 2015-03-05</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2913318/How-false-memories-land-jail-tricked-believing-committed-crime-study-reveals.html|title=Most of us can be tricked into believing we have committed a crime|work=Mail Online|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories|title=False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes|last=Bryce|first=Emma|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> The validity of this 70% finding has, however, been criticised by colleagues <ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wade|first1=K. A.|last2=Garry|first2=M.|last3=Pezdek|first3=K.|title=De-constructing rich false memories of crime: Commentary on Shaw and Porter (2015)|journal=Psychological Science||date=2017|url=http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/87062/}}</ref>, to which she replied<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shaw|first1= Julia.|title=How Can Researchers Tell Whether Someone Has a False Memory? Coding Strategies in Autobiographical False-Memory Research: A Reply to Wade, Garry, and Pezdek (2018)|journal=Psychological Science||date=2017|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797618759552}}</ref>
Shaw's expertise is in [[False memory syndrome|false memories]] and how law enforcement can use "tactics [that] may lead people to recall crimes that never occurred".<ref name=":0" /> In one of her studies, she succeeded to get 70% of the participants to create false memories or beliefs of events from their childhood that never took place, and this study was covered extensively in mainstream media.<ref>Douglas Starr: [http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/false-memory-crime ''Remembering A Crime That You Didn’t Commit'']. The New Yorker, 2015-03-05</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2913318/How-false-memories-land-jail-tricked-believing-committed-crime-study-reveals.html|title=Most of us can be tricked into believing we have committed a crime|work=Mail Online|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories|title=False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes|last=Bryce|first=Emma|access-date=2018-01-02}}</ref> The validity of this 70% finding has, however, been criticised by colleagues <ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wade|first1=K. A.|last2=Garry|first2=M.|last3=Pezdek|first3=K.|title=De-constructing rich false memories of crime: Commentary on Shaw and Porter (2015)|journal=Psychological Science||date=2017|url=http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/87062/}}</ref>, to which she replied<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shaw|first1= Julia.|title=How Can Researchers Tell Whether Someone Has a False Memory? Coding Strategies in Autobiographical False-Memory Research: A Reply to Wade, Garry, and Pezdek (2018)|journal=Psychological Science||date=2017|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797618759552}}</ref>.


== Public engagement ==
== Public engagement ==

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Julia Shaw (born 1987) is a German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specialises in false memories.

Education and academic career

Shaw was born in Cologne, Germany and grew up in Canada. In 2004 she started a BSc in psychology at the Simon Fraser University.[1] She went on to complete a Masters in Psychology and Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.[2] In 2009, she returned to Canada to and was awarded a PhD at the University of British Columbia entitled "Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime".[3] Shaw remained in Canada, a lecturer at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia.[4] In 2013 she became Lecturer in forensic psychology at University of Bedfordshire.[5] She joined London South Bank University as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in 2015, before becoming a honoray[6] Research Associate at University College London in 2017.[7][8]

Shaw's expertise is in false memories and how law enforcement can use "tactics [that] may lead people to recall crimes that never occurred".[3] In one of her studies, she succeeded to get 70% of the participants to create false memories or beliefs of events from their childhood that never took place, and this study was covered extensively in mainstream media.[9][10][11] The validity of this 70% finding has, however, been criticised by colleagues [12], to which she replied[13].

Public engagement

Shaw is a contributor to Scientific American.[14] She gives public lectures on psychology and memory.[15][16][17] In 2016 she created a NOVA PBC documentary, "Memory Hackers".[18] She contributes to podcasts and radio, and her work has been featured on the Discovery Channel and BBC, as well as appearing in Der Spiegel, Russia Today and The Times.[19][20][21][22][23][24] In 2016, Random House published her first book "The Memory Illusion", which has since been translated to 14 different languages.[25][26] In 2017 she gave a TEDx talk "How False Memories Corrupt Our Identities, Politics and Justice System" at TEDxBergen and "Is Your Memory Just an Illusion?" at TEDxPorto.[27][28]

Publications

  • The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory. Random House, 2016

Notes

  1. ^ Bryce, Emma. "False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes". Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  2. ^ "Julia Shaw Speaker, Speeches, Booking Agent | MFL Global". MFL Global. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  3. ^ a b Julia Shaw; Stephen Porter (2015-03-01). "Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime". Psychological Science. 26 (3): 291–301. doi:10.1177/0956797614562862. ISSN 0956-7976.
  4. ^ Shaw, Julia. "LinkedIn - Dr Julia Shaw". Retrieved 2018-01-02. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ Siegel, Nathan. "Give This Woman 3 Hours and She'll Have You Confessing to a Crime You Didn't Commit". OZY. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  6. ^ http://search2.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.html?query=j.shaw%40ucl.ac.uk&collection=website-meta&profile=_directory&tab=directory&sumbit=Go&start_rank=1
  7. ^ profile at LinkedIn (retrieved 2016-09-26)
  8. ^ "Dr Julia Shaw Senior Lecturer - Criminology". London South Bank University. Archived from the original on 2017-03-16. Retrieved 2016-09-27. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Douglas Starr: Remembering A Crime That You Didn’t Commit. The New Yorker, 2015-03-05
  10. ^ "Most of us can be tricked into believing we have committed a crime". Mail Online. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  11. ^ Bryce, Emma. "False memories and false confessions: the psychology of imagined crimes". Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  12. ^ Wade, K. A.; Garry, M.; Pezdek, K. (2017). "De-constructing rich false memories of crime: Commentary on Shaw and Porter (2015)". Psychological Science. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  13. ^ Shaw, Julia. (2017). "How Can Researchers Tell Whether Someone Has a False Memory? Coding Strategies in Autobiographical False-Memory Research: A Reply to Wade, Garry, and Pezdek (2018)". Psychological Science. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  14. ^ "Stories by Julia Shaw". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  15. ^ YourLPI (2016-12-15), Dr Julia Shaw - False memory in the workplace, retrieved 2018-01-02
  16. ^ LearningTechnologies (2017-02-28), Julia Shaw - Memory hacking: The science of learning in the 21st Century - LT17 conference, retrieved 2018-01-02
  17. ^ Julia Shaw (2016-06-04), The Memory Illusion by Dr Julia Shaw, retrieved 2018-01-02
  18. ^ Julia Shaw (2016-02-17), Julia Shaw on "Memory Hackers" Nova, retrieved 2018-01-02
  19. ^ "What an expert on false memories can tell you about the EU debate". The Independent. 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  20. ^ "Ep 7: Dr Julia Shaw & Dr Brenna Hassett – Ada Lovelace Day". findingada.com. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  21. ^ Editor, Tom Whipple, Science (2016-06-24). "False memory of sex abuse can be inspired by police". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-01-02. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ "Trügerische Erinnerungen: Der vermeintliche Verbrecher". Spiegel Online. 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  23. ^ "Dr. Julia Shaw: "Your imagination can be easily confused with your memory", Fearne Cotton and Professor Julia Shaw, Steve Wright in the Afternoon - BBC Radio 2". BBC. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  24. ^ French, Christopher. "Explainer: what are false memories?". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  25. ^ "The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory eBook: Julia Shaw: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store". www.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  26. ^ Shaw, Julia. "The Memory Illusion". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  27. ^ TEDx Talks (2017-11-09), How False Memories Corrupt Our Identities, Politics, and Justice System | Julia Shaw | TEDxBergen, retrieved 2018-01-02
  28. ^ TEDx Talks (2017-10-30), Is Your Memory Just an Illusion? | A Tua Memória é Apenas Uma Ilusão? | Julia Shaw | TEDxPorto, retrieved 2018-01-02
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