Posted on 09/17/2018 7:59:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Researcher William Hirst, of the New School for Social Research, conducted a long-term study of the memories of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
His finding: People’s remembrances of that dark day are not as reliable as one might believe. “Flashbulb memories’’ formed by upsetting events, he wrote, are often wrong.
Hirst and his researchers followed more than 3,000 participants over a 10-year period. They found that, over time, many forgot key details of the attacks, while others had false memories involving events that did not happen.
Yet most surveyed remained confident in the accuracy of their 9/11 memories, even as the consistency of those memories declined with time.
Which leads us to Christine Blasey Ford, who claims that Brett Kavanaugh, nominee for the Supreme Court, assaulted her roughly 36 years ago. He denies it, even saying he wasn’t at the party she describes.
The #MeToo movement demands that we believe the accuser. But one can believe something traumatic happened to Ford without necessarily believing it happened the way she describes.
And should one flashbulb memory really sink someone’s career?
In a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Ford describes a party that happened when she was a student at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Md., perhaps in 1982. Kavanaugh would have been about 17, at the end of his junior year at the all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School.
Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, she says, were drunk and took her into a room. While Judge watched, Kavanaugh allegedly pinned her to a bed and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit....
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Kavanaugh’s accuser could be lying....
If you were a Conservative nominee to the SCOTUS, you could have not touched a girl outside of wedlock all your life and still be accused.
The NSA most likely has the truth. This entire fraud was pre-arranged. Most like there were intercepted communications during the process since the NSA now captures everything. If only they could talk.
This is politics. The Dems. do not like not being in power.
If someone has never squeezed a boob when they were in high school, I don’t want them being a judge over normal people.
Yes, yes. My own academic studies suggest she could be a typical Uber-self righteous libtard lying sack.
The NSA can only talk if it assist the Democrat Party or the Deep state
Amazing. The GOP has to kiss butt to keep from losing those 2 female Senators plus the girlie men, Flake and The Tennessee fella.
Could be?! She probably had a dream and thought it was real. She is dirty.
MK-Ultra operation?
You could also have refused to be alone with a woman your entire life...and put up with the rants that Pence gets to experience.
Yep. Many people will probably forget to vote this time. There are lots of people out there who are tired of politics and hearing t.v. news drama day after day. There is lots of stuff on t.v. reported that is not even true.
No, her memory is just fine, it’s her lying that should be questioned.
ALL PEOPLE have a tendency to ‘remember’ things based on HOW THEY FELT and not upon what actually happened.
I’ll give an example. Your friend is telling you about a run-in with his boss. Your friend says, “I was like... That is such a stupid idea.”
You say, “you said that to him?”
He says, “well... No. I was thinking it though.”
The Dims have been saying since his nomination that they would do anything to stop his confirmation. Their more vocal supporters have held their Senators feet to the fire (especially Feinstein) to do anything they can to stop Kavanaugh and Trump by extension. So, true to their word and what they said they would do they are now pushing perhaps one of the weakest accusations in history. Is anyone really surprised? Remember, liberals believe that the ends justify the means in their world view.
Her ‘memory’ is slowing filling in gaps to make the overall narrative make sense.
Whether that is due to attorney/political prompting or her own doing, it could still be considered ‘false’ memory.
The New School is quite liberal, but it does some good work and offers some good classes.
A defining characteristic of the Left is belief in things that are not true.
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