4 Quotes & Sayings By Elizabeth F Loftus

Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the College of Criminal Justice at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Loftus' research on memory has received international recognition, with her papers appearing in over 500 scientific journals and books Read more

She is the author of Eyewitness Testimony; The Myth of Repressed Memory; and most recently, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, which was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press. Her work has been widely cited by those who challenge official versions of historical events such as the Holocaust, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the September 11th attacks.

In 2007 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work on false memory and repressed memory.

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[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people. Elizabeth F. Loftus
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In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain (p. 83).(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976, Bundy was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping). Elizabeth F. Loftus
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The thought had occurred to me as I was flying to Salt Lake City earlier that day that Ted Bundy might offer to let me stay in his apartment” (p. 74).(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976) Elizabeth F. Loftus