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Elizabeth Loftus
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American cognitive psychologist
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Elizabeth Loftus is an American psychologist, statistician, and university teacher born in Los Angeles in 1944. She holds a doctorate with Patrick Suppes as her advisor and has been educated at Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her professional career includes employment at the University of Washington and the University of California, Irvine, where she resides in California.
Loftus’s field of work encompasses psychology and false memory. She is the author of works including *Eye Witness Testimony*, *Witness for the Defense*, and *The Myth of Repressed Memory*. Her contributions have been recognized with the Grawemeyer Awards and fellowships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Eye Witness Testimony
- Witness for the Defense
- The Myth of Repressed Memory
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 29
- Total plays
- 44
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,252x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
- Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,191x
- Comparing the Areas under Two or More Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Nonparametric Approach
· 1988 · cited 19,622x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,740x
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Quotes
- “In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.”
- “The results were clear: the new environment inhibited recognition.”
- “To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.”
- “The problem is clear: the unreliability of eyewitness identification evidence poses one of the most serious problems in the administration of criminal justice and civil litigation.”
- “Even if it's going to be a harmful memory, they don't want to let it go. (This is) why sometimes I get such resistance to the work I do. Because it's telling people that your mind might be full of much more fiction than you realize. And people don't like that.”
- “Which would you rather have? A kid with obesity, heart problems, shortened lifespan, diabetes -- or maybe a little bit of false memory?”
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Key facts
- Born
- Elizabeth Fishman , ( 1944-10-16 ) October 16, 1944 (age 81) , Bel Air, California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of California, Los Angeles ( BA ) Stanford University ( MA , PhD )
- Fields
- Mathematical psychology
- Institutions
- New School University University of Washington UCI
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Employer
- University of California, Irvine
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Patrick Suppes
- Field of work
- false memory
- Image
- Elizabeth Loftus-TAM 9-July 2011.JPG
- Residence
- California
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- date of birth
- 1944-10-16
- Commons category
- Elizabeth Loftus
- birth name
- Elizabeth Fishman
- name in native language
- Elizabeth F. Loftus
- social media followers
- 5486
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Encyclopedic overview
Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies.
Loftus's research includes the effects of phrasing on the perceptions of automobile crashes, the "lost in the mall" technique and the manipulation of food preferences through the use of false memories. In the Jane Doe case that began in 1997, Loftus and Melvin J. Guyer revealed serious concerns about the background and validity of the initial research. She has also served on the executive council of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and was a keynote speaker at the British Psychological Society's 2011 annual conference.
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