Why Memories Are More Fragile Than You Think - Celine van Golde - #6

Art of the Question · Mar 30, 2026 · 1h 1m · transcript

Celine van Golde is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney, where she researches memory, eyewitness testimony, and wrongful convictions. She is also the founder of the Sydney Exoneration Project.

Your memory isn't a recording but a reconstruction. Every time you recall something, your brain is quietly patching together what actually happened with what you expected, what you felt, and what others have since told you. And that gap between "what I remember" and "what really occurred" is exactly where gaslighting lives.

In this conversation, we go from the science of…