Elizabeth Loftus
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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.
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Elizabeth Loftus
said · Jun 2013
Memory works like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
How reliable is your memory? June 2013
Elizabeth Loftus
said · 1979
In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.
p. 62
Elizabeth Loftus
said · 1979
The results were clear: the new environment inhibited recognition.
p. 90
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Anthony FauciAlso won John Maddox Prize
Paul BergAlso won AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
Elihu RootAlso won Honorary doctor of Leiden University
Martin SeligmanAlso won Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists
Douglas HofstadterAlso won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
John MoneyAlso won APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of PsychologyAbout this person
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United StatesCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
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living
Dates
Born 1944 · age 81
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