Elizabeth Loftus
I study human memory. My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research. My interest in psychology and law, more generally, has grown from this application.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Law and Public Policy
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
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Books:
- Loftus, E. F. (1996). Eyewitness testimony (rev. ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Loftus, E. F., Doyle, J. M., & Dysart, J. (2008). Eyewitness testimony: Civil and criminal (4th ed.). Charlottesville, VA: Lexis Law Publishing.
- Loftus, E. F., & Ketcham, K. (1994). The myth of repressed memory: False memories and allegations of sexual abuse. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Loftus, E. F., & Ketcham, K. (1991). Witness for the defense: The accused, the eyewitness, and the expert who puts memory on trial. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Journal Articles:
- Bernstein, D. M., Laney, C., Morris, E. K., & Loftus, E. F. (2005). False memories about food can lead to food avoidance. Social Cognition, 23, 10-33.
- Braun, K. A., Ellis, R., & Loftus, E. F. (2002). Make my memory: How advertising can change our memories of the past. Psychology and Marketing, 19, 1-23.
- Braun, K. A., & Loftus, E. F. (1998). Advertising's misinformation effect. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12, 569-591.
- Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208-214.
- Loftus, E. F. (2005). Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory. Learning and Memory, 12, 361-366.
- Loftus, E. F. (2003). Make-believe memories. American Psychologist, 58, 864-873.
- Loftus, E. F. (1997, September). Creating false memories. Scientific American, 277(3), 70-75.
- Loftus, E. F. (1993). The reality of repressed memories. American Psychologist, 48, 518-537.
- Loftus, E. F., & Davis, D. (2006). Recovered memories. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2, 469-498.
- Loftus, E. F., & Palmer, J. C. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 585-589.
Other Publications:
Elizabeth Loftus
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
2393 Social Ecology 2
University of California
Irvine, California 92697-7080
United States of America
- Phone: (949) 824-3285
- Fax: (949) 824-3001