Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, referenced his years of psychology research and determined that "Christine Blasey Ford is more credible than Brett Kavanaugh:"
"I can't tell you the truth about what actually occurred back when they were teen-agers — no one can, not even Ford or Kavanaugh. But I can tell you without doubt that one of these individuals is almost certainly more believable than the other.
Human memory is incredibly complex and poorly understood. Unlike computer memory, which normally stores and retrieves information without distorting it in any way, human memory is constructive, creative, and ever changing."
One of the few kinds of memory that gets instantly preserved — sometimes forever — is that caused by trauma, in part because people who experience trauma often relive the traumatic event thousands of times as the years go by. That's why victims tend, on average, to be more reliable reporters than perpetrators."
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