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.
Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. - Elizabeth Loftus
Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.
- 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
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.
In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened. - Elizabeth Loftus
In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.
You can go in there and change it, but so can other people. - Elizabeth Loftus
You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. - Elizabeth Loftus
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.
We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way. - Elizabeth Loftus
We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.
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
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…
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
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to …
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. - Elizabeth Loftus
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
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