Brittany Cardwell is a stand-up comedian based in New York City.

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(00:00) Intro – Moving from New Zealand to New York for comedy

(03:12) Early comedy beginnings in Dunedin

(05:20) How false memory research became her academic path

(08:40) The rise of “recovered memories” and 1980s therapy culture

(12:25) Experiments creating false childhood memories

(16:05) How imagination and photos distort real memories

(19:20) False confessions and eyewitness bias in the justice system

(23:05) The horse-cue study and unconscious suggestion

(26:40) Personal story of being robbed and memory distortion

(30:10) Anchoring, availability, and why memory feels like truth

(33:15) Leaving academ ...