Elizabeth Loftus

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

"Even if it's going to be a harmful memory, they don't want to let it go. why sometimes I get such resistance to the work I do. Because it's telling people that your mind might be full of much more fic…"

"Which would you rather have? A kid with obesity, heart problems, shortened lifespan, diabetes -- or maybe a little bit of false memory?"

"The problem is clear: the unreliability of eyewitness identification evidence poses one of the most serious problems in the administration of criminal justice and civil litigation."

"Therapists probably can't ethically do it, and they may have anti-deception provisions in their standards of conduct. But bad governments, bad people, they don't have requirements of conduct. When we …"

"It is possible not to think about something for a long time, even something unpleasant that happened to you. But what's been claimed in these repressed-memory cases is something, by definition, that's…"

"The results were clear: the new environment inhibited recognition."

"I collaborated on a brain imaging study in 2010, and the overwhelming conclusion we reached is that the neural patterns were very similar for true and false memories. We are a long way away from being…"