Julia Shaw (psychologist)

Julia Shaw (2018)

Julia Shaw (* 1987 in Cologne ) is a German - Canadian forensic psychologist and author who specializes in memories and their manipulation.

Life

Shaw was born in Cologne and grew up in Canada . There she studied psychology at Simon Fraser University and graduated with a bachelor's degree. She then went to the Netherlands and obtained a Master of Science degree in psychology and law from Maastricht University . Back in Canada, Shaw received his PhD in psychology from the University of British Columbia . In 2013 she accepted a position as a lecturer in forensic psychology at the University of Bedfordshire , and from 2015 to 2017 she worked at London South Bank University . Since the summer of 2017 she has had a voluntary position as Research Associate at University College London (UCL).

Shaw deals, among other things, with memory corruption and published a study together with Stephen Porter in 2015 in which they had convinced 70% of the subjects that they had committed a crime in the past and now remember it.

Shaw a regular contributor for the Mind Guest blog of Scientific American and published in 2016 her first book, which also deals with memory corruptions.

Fonts

Julia Shaw (l.) And Vivian Perkovic (r.) At the Frankfurt Book Fair (2018)

• The Memory Illusion , London 2016
  • The deceptive memory. How our brain fakes memories . Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-44877-3 .
• Making Evil , London 2018
  • Angry. The psychology of our abysses . Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26029-0 .

Web links

Commons : Julia Shaw  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and reviews of works by Julia Shaw at perlentaucher.de
• Julia Shaw's website
• Article by Julia Shaw at Scientific American
• Julia Shaw - Memory hacking: The science of learning in the 21st Century - LT17 conference (Video, English, 1:03 hours)
• Talk to Spot An AI -based help tool for victims of bullying

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile. In: LinkedIn . Retrieved September 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dr Julia Shaw Senior Lecturer - Criminology. (No longer available online.) London South Bank University, archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on September 27, 2016 (English). 
3. ↑ Douglas Starr: REMEMBERING A CRIME THAT YOU DIDN'T COMMIT. In: newyorker.com , March 5, 2015
4. ↑ The Deluded Memory - False Memories in Court. In: 3sat.de. March 30, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .