Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

- Elizabeth Loftus

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

- Elizabeth Loftus

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

- Elizabeth Loftus

You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

- Elizabeth Loftus

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

- Elizabeth Loftus

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to …

- Elizabeth Loftus

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

- Elizabeth Loftus

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

- Elizabeth Loftus

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 t…

- Elizabeth Loftus