#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

The following is a conversation with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist who has written extensively on a wide variety of topics that explore human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality. Her books include Evil about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion about False Memories, Bye about bisexuality, and her new book, They Should Definitely Go Order now called Green Crime, which is a study of the dark underworld of poachers, illegal gold miners, corporate frauds, hipmen, and all kinds of other environmental criminals. Julia is a brilliant and kind hearted person, with whom I got the chance to have many great conversations with on and off the mic. This was an honor

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