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Elizabeth Loftus

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Birthday: October 16, 1944

Educated At: Stanford University

Nationality: American, United States Of America

Occupations: University Teacher, Psychologist, Statistician

Total quotes: 1

“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.”

— Elizabeth Loftus, Transcript of "How reliable is your memory?"

Tagged: Memory, Nostalgia, Psychology

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