Elizabeth Loftus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Memories #Way
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Together #Might #Different
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Memories #Independent #Done
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 this is a false memory.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Memories #Lying #Mistake
Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Memories #Liberty #Fragile Things
You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#People
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.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Memories #Mean #Thinking
We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Memories
In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Real #Believe #People
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.
-- Elizabeth Loftus

#Guarantees #Should #Cautious

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