Elizabeth Loftus Quotes (7 Quotes)

He was asked why he was participating. Because we have nothing to do this season, ... So I thought it would be fun.

My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Fact, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research.

It's not as simple as looking at the number of students going into law school and suggesting that they'll all need to qualify when they get out,

One answer is that suggestive interviewing or other suggestive influences helped to create false beliefs or memories,

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.

We're not seeing evidence of a lack of places. For the last couple of years we've had spare places and the market has been growing.

The pressure now is to get into the workplace and start earning money.