# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-loftus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:23:40.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-loftus"
name: "Elizabeth Loftus"
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description: "Elizabeth F. Loftus is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies."
tagline: "American cognitive psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Loftus.jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1944-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump