Elizabeth Loftus Quotations

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,

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

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.

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

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

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

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

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

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.

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.

One answer is that suggestive interviewing or other suggestive influences helped to create false beliefs or memories,

My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Fact, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research.

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

The pressure now is to get into the workplace and start earning money.

We're not seeing evidence of a lack of places. For the last couple of years we've had spare places and the market has been growing.

It's not as simple as looking at the number of students going into law school and suggesting that they'll all need to qualify when they get out,