Elizabeth Loftus
A leading expert on human memory, particularly eyewitness testimony and the malleability of memory, demonstrating how false memories can be implanted.
Quotes by Elizabeth Loftus
We think our past is fixed, but it's more like wet cement—easily shaped.
The lost in the mall experiment proved that even implausible events can become 'remembered'.
Confidence in a memory doesn't guarantee its accuracy.
Our brains are storytellers, filling in gaps with fiction when facts fail.
Repressed memories? More like repressed skepticism in some therapies.
Memory isn't a truth serum; it's a creative reconstruction.
In the dance of memory, leading questions can step on truth's toes.
What we remember is often more about who we are now than who we were then.
The fragility of memory is a reminder of our human imperfection.
Suggestibility isn't a flaw; it's a feature of our adaptive minds.
Eyewitnesses see with their eyes, but recall with their expectations.
Memories fade, but myths about them persist.
In science, as in life, questioning our certainties leads to discovery.
The brain's filing system is more like a game of telephone than a library.
False memories teach us humility about the past.
Post-event information can contaminate the purest recollections.
Therapy should heal, not fabricate.
Our memories are colored by emotion, like paint on a canvas.
In the courtroom of the mind, bias is the judge.
Remembering is an act of imagination as much as recollection.