Elizabeth Loftus quotes:
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To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.
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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 to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.
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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 have these characteristics too.
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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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Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
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You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
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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 be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.
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We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,
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In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.