Elizabeth Loftus

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, ..…

— Elizabeth Loftus

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

— Elizabeth Loftus

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

— Elizabeth Loftus

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

— 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…

— Elizabeth Loftus

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it…

— Elizabeth Loftus

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play…

— 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…

— Elizabeth Loftus

“Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.”

— Elizabeth Loftus

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

— Elizabeth Loftus

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

— Elizabeth Loftus

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

— Elizabeth Loftus

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

— Elizabeth Loftus

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it…

— Elizabeth Loftus