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If anyone's interested in another analysis of the problem of repressed memory (particularly in legal context) I would recommend checking out some of Robyn Dawes

If anyone's interested in another analysis of the problem of repressed memory (particularly in legal context) I would recommend checking out some of Robyn Dawes' work. This is a good starting point: http://books.google.com/books?id=LvbnRn78ywsC&lpg=PP1&ots=c38PMvzFVj&dq=robyn%20dawes&pg=PA157#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=LvbnRn78ywsC&lpg=PP1&#3...

billswift 16y ago
Even better is Elizabeth Loftus's Myth of Repressed Memory from the late 1990s (http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Repressed-Memory-Memories-Allegations/dp/0312141238/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283787919&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Repressed-Memory-Memories-Allegat...). Loftus specializes in memory research and has been an expert witness, Witness for the Defense http://www.amazon.com/Witness-Defense-Accused-Eyewitness-Expert/dp/0312084552/ref=pd_sim_b_1 http://www.amazon.com/Witness-Defense-Accused-Eyewitness-Exp... about legal cases she was involved in and Eyewitness Testimony http://www.amazon.com/Eyewitness-Testimony-new-preface-author/dp/0674287770/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c http://www.amazon.com/Eyewitness-Testimony-new-preface-autho... which was originally written in 1980.