Lex Fridman Podcast #483 · October 14, 2025 · 3h

Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

Julia Shaw — criminal psychologist. False memories, why eyewitness testimony is unreliable, the psychology of serial killers, and how memory is more like imagination than recording.

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Highlights

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Memory is reconstruction, not recording

Shaw: every time you remember something, you're reconstructing it — not playing back a recording. Each recall changes the memory.

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False memories can be implanted — and feel completely real

Shaw has implanted false memories of committing crimes in experimental subjects. They genuinely believe it happened.

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