The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

Schacter, Daniel L.

ISBN 10: 0618219196 / ISBN 13: 9780618219193

Published by Mariner Books, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618219196
• ISBN 13: 9780618219193
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Examines what the author terms "common memory vices," including absent-mindedness, transcience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence, applying experimental evidence to discuss such high-visibility cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and President Clinton's grand jury testimony. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

DANIEL L. SCHACTER is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the Psychology Department of Harvard University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received numerous awards for his research, including the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association and the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He is the author of many books on memory and neuropsychology, including Searching for Memory, which received praise as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and which won the American Psychological Association's William James Book Award, as did The Sevens Sins of Memory. Schacter lives in Newton, Massachusetts.