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 Copy Share Image
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. The process of… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way. — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened. — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share
