1. Geoffrey Loftus was born on December 24,1945 and is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington.
11 Facts About Geoffrey Loftus
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Geoffrey Loftus specializes in memory and attention, and his most recent research focuses on face perception and hindsight bias.
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Geoffrey Loftus subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of George Sperling in 1972, and he joined the faculty of the University of Washington shortly thereafter, where he has remained since.
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Geoff Loftus was married to fellow psychologist Elizabeth Loftus from 1968 to 1991.
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Geoff Geoffrey Loftus retired from full-time professorship in July, 2017, primarily to focus on his legal work.
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Increasingly, Geoffrey Loftus has been applying his scientific work to issues in human cognition that have arisen in legal cases.
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Geoffrey Loftus has participated in one way or another in approximately 1,000 such cases.
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Geoffrey Loftus has testified as an expert witness in perception, memory, statistics, and video-game behavior in approximately 495 civil and criminal cases.
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Geoffrey Loftus has testified in superior courts in 13 US states, United States federal courts in 11 different cities, a US Court-martial at the US Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy, and Canadian court in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Geoffrey Loftus's work has been cited by the Innocence project in several of their cases, most notably that of Darrell Edwards.
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Geoffrey Loftus has written articles on information loss in the human visual system associated with a witness's seeing someone from a specific distance and visual hindsight bias.