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Memory’s surprising role in child death trials

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Last updated August 27, 2018

By Tina Underwood

Furman University psychology professor Gil Einstein goes on record in The Crime Report about a form of forgetting that leads to tragic consequences. Einstein and fellow researcher Mark McDaniel say that the act of unintentionally leaving a child in a vehicle isn’t about bad parenting. Rather, it’s a catastrophic failure of prospective memory–the part of our memory responsible for the things we intend to do in the future.

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