Elizabeth Loftus quotes

“We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "I Could Have Sworn …". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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“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.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.

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“Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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“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.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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“Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.

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“You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "To Enhance Justice: The Risk and Reward of Studying Memory". thehumanist.com. October 25, 2016.

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“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.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

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“We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "How reliable is your memory?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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“In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "Eyewitness Testimony". Book by Elizabeth Loftus, 1979.

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“To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.”
-- Elizabeth Loftus

Source : "Eyewitness Testimony". Book by Elizabeth Loftus, 1979.

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