Elizabeth F Loftus was born on 1944 and is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies.
40 Facts About Elizabeth Loftus
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Elizabeth Loftus has served on the executive council of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and was a keynote speaker at the British Psychological Society's 2011 annual conference.
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In 2022, Elizabeth Loftus made list of world's top female scientists.
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Elizabeth Loftus's father was a doctor and her mother a librarian.
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Elizabeth Loftus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1966, followed by a master's and PhD in mathematical psychology from Stanford University in 1967 and 1970 respectively.
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Elizabeth Loftus's thesis was entitled "An Analysis of the Structural Variables That Determine Problem-Solving Difficulty on a Computer-Based Teletype".
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From 1968 to 1991, Elizabeth was married to fellow psychologist Geoffrey Loftus.
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From 1970 to 1973, Elizabeth Loftus was employed as a cognitive psychologist at the New School for Social Research in New York City, after becoming dissatisfied with university work such as calibrating math and word problems for fifth-grade students.
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Elizabeth Loftus was employed at the University of Washington from 1973 to 2001, initially as an assistant professor.
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Elizabeth Loftus shifted from laboratory work to using "real world" situations of criminal court cases.
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Elizabeth Loftus concluded that "these results are consistent with the view that the questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one's memory of that event".
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In 1974, Elizabeth Loftus published two articles with her observations about the conflicting eyewitness accounts in a particular murder trial and about the reliability of witness testimony in general.
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Early attempts for Elizabeth Loftus to act as an expert witness for these lawyers were deemed inadmissible by judges, however in June 1975 Elizabeth Loftus presented the first expert witness testimony in Washington State on the topic of eyewitness identification.
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Elizabeth Loftus was employed by the attorney to provide expert testimony in support of this theory.
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Elizabeth Loftus referred to an experiment where she showed people video of a crime and then an incorrect television news report about the crime.
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Elizabeth Loftus argued that the same must have happened to Franklin's daughter, causing a "memory" of an event that she hadn't witnessed.
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However, the prosecutor forced Elizabeth Loftus to admit that she had never studied memories like those of Franklin's daughter.
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Elizabeth Loftus's studies found that people could misidentify random perpetrators, not that they could mistakenly accuse their own fathers.
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Also in 1991, Elizabeth Loftus was deemed an honorary fellow of the British Psychological Society.
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Also, Elizabeth Loftus had previously received death threats after the publication of her 1994 book The Myth of Repressed Memory.
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Jane contacted the University of Washington and accused Elizabeth Loftus of breaching her privacy.
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The investigation lasted for 21 months, during which time Elizabeth Loftus was not allowed to share her findings.
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The university cleared Elizabeth Loftus of breaking research protocols, and Elizabeth Loftus and Guyer published their findings in 2002.
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Elizabeth Loftus stated that she "didn't wear her best jacket" to give her address for "fear of flying tomatoes".
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From 2001 to 2003, Elizabeth Loftus worked for the University of California, Irvine, as a distinguished professor in the department of Criminology, Law and Society and the department of Psychological Science.
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Elizabeth Loftus was a fellow in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
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Elizabeth Loftus's work included an experiment on 131 undergraduate students in relation to preferences for cookies and strawberry ice cream.
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In 2002, Elizabeth Loftus was ranked 58th in the Review of General Psychologys list of the 100 most influential psychological researchers of the 20th century.
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Also in 2003, Elizabeth Loftus was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Elizabeth Loftus stated that Alda's questionnaire self-correction from "definitely didn't happen" to "happened" supported the false memory theory.
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Elizabeth Loftus attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium in November 2006.
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From 2011 to, Elizabeth Loftus was on the executive council of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Elizabeth Loftus was a keynote speaker at the British Psychological Society's annual conference in 2011.
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In June 2013, Elizabeth Loftus presented at the TEDGlobal Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Elizabeth Loftus was the keynote speaker at the 2013 Psychonomic Society annual meeting.
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In 2015, Elizabeth Loftus received an honorary doctorate in psychology from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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In 2016, Elizabeth Loftus received the John Maddox Prize, In 2018, she won the Western Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award and the University College Dublin's Ulysses Medal.
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Elizabeth Loftus has testified in over 300 cases, and consulted on many more.
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Elizabeth Loftus has been involved with the cases of Ted Bundy, OJ.
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Elizabeth Loftus has written or co-authored many journal articles and books, including the 1994 book titled The Myth of Repressed Memory.