During a recent study of memory recall and the use of suggestive interviewing, UC Irvine cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Loftus successfully planted false memories in volunteers of several study ...

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Elizabeth F. Loftus, distinguished professor of psychological science and criminology, law & society, has been named a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS and a study she co-authored has won a 2025 ...

The work of psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, who has spent decades exposing flaws in eyewitness testimony, is gaining fresh traction in the U.S. legal system In the early hours of 9 September, 1984, a ...