Elizabeth Loftus quotes:

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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