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
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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.