Julia Shaw (psychologist)
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
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The Memory Illusion , London 2016
- The deceptive memory. How our brain fakes memories . Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-44877-3 .
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Making Evil , London 2018
- Angry. The psychology of our abysses . Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26029-0 .
Web links
- 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
- ↑ Profile. In: LinkedIn . Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Douglas Starr: REMEMBERING A CRIME THAT YOU DIDN'T COMMIT. In: newyorker.com , March 5, 2015
- ↑ The Deluded Memory - False Memories in Court. In: 3sat.de. March 30, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Shaw, Julia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lecturer, senior |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian legal psychologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |