A little bit ago, Slate magazine did a week's worth of articles on the life and work of Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist who has done more than anyone to show us how imperfect our memories are. And thankfully so... while it is certainly interesting how she debunked the myth of perfect recall by showing that we can be easily manipulated to remember things differently from how they happened, or even "remember" things that never happened at all, her work has also debunked the idea of "repressed" memories, and helped many wrongly accused victims avoid severe criminal penalties and jail time. Her work certainly makes one question how much weight eyewitness testimony should be given in legal cases (particularly in the absence of strong corroborating evidence), or, at the very least, it makes a strong case for statutes of limitations...Check it out...
http://www.slate.com/id/2251883/
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