Absolutes Quote by Elizabeth Loftus

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

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

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

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Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

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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…

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

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“[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…

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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