Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth Loftus · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Cognitive psychologist known for research on memory and eyewitness testimony
1944, Los Angeles, California, United States
United States
Elizabeth Loftus is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Cognitive psychologist known for research on memory and eyewitness testimony
Loftus is a cognitive psychologist whose experiments on the malleability of human memory and the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, including the misinformation effect and false-memory research, reshaped psychology and the law. She was born Elizabeth Fishman into a Jewish family in Los Angeles.
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Cognitive psychologist known for research on memory and eyewitness testimony
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