Elizabeth Loftus Quotes

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

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

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

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#7. Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

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#8. We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,

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

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