People in Rome recollect the 2004 anti - war objection as peaceful . But when university student in the United States attend at exposure of the protest later , they call it violent and perturbing . What happened ? Was it a cultural gap ? No — it was a doctor up photograph , much like the 1 the New York Times melt down of an Israeli air raid on Beirut with a lot of extra roll of tobacco billowing over the urban center . The bushel Rome picture was used for a new cogitation that inquire whether small changes made in photographs could transmogrify the way people interpret event depict in them .
Now there ’s scientific proof that a doctor up photo can interchange history . Researcher Elizabeth Loftus neuter a photo of the Rome protest , adding a person in a masque , and discovered that mass took this midget change as a mark that the protestation had been agonistic . Apparently :
participant who consider the doctored photos pronounce they were less inclined to take part in future protests .
Said Loftus , “ It ’s potentially a shape of human engineering that could be applied to us against our noesis . ” Yeah , sort of like that Fnord thing .
Memory can be manipulated by photos[UC Irvine ]
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