A groundbreaking study made Julia Shaw the shooting star of legal psychology overnight. In her false memory study, she used suggestive questioning methods to implant a false memory in 70% of her test subjects. Since then, she has been known as the Memory Hacker. Internationally, she advises the police, armed forces, lawyers, the judiciary and business and founded a company in Silicon Valley in 2017 that uses artificial intelligence to combat discrimination in business. Dr. Julia Shaw is a bestselling author, speaker and researcher in the Department of Psychology at University College London, where she conducts research in the fields of legal psychology, memory and artificial intelligence. Her non-fiction debut “The Memory Illusion – Das trügerische Gedächtnis” became an international bestseller in 2016 and is published in 14 languages.

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