Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus is an American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory. Loftus is best known for her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory, and the creation and nature of false memories, including recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. As well as her prolific work inside the laboratory, Loftus has been heavily involved in applying her research to legal settings; she has consulted or provided...
Elizabeth Loftus quotes about
memories independent littles
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
memories
We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,
people
You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
memories mistake lying
My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.
guarantees should cautious
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.
real believe people
In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.
memories way susceptible
We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.
memories mean thinking
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.
together remember-something different
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.
memories liberty fragile-things
Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.