Search filters

List of works by Elizabeth Loftus

"Queasy does it": false alcohol beliefs and memories may lead to diminished alcohol preferences

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

25 Years of Eyewitness Science……Finally Pays Off.

scientific article published on September 2013

A Random Samples Clarification

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

A case of streptococcus bovis endocarditis and colonic carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 February 1985

A historical note on false traumatic memories

scientific article published in January 2004

A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing

Accounts of the confidence-accuracy relation in recognition memory

scientific article published in March 2000

Accuracy of eyewitness identification is significantly associated with performance on a standardized test of face recognition

scientific article published on 20 April 2007

Are Actions Regretted More Than Inactions?

scientific article published in June 1999

Are the "memory wars" over? A scientist-practitioner gap in beliefs about repressed memory

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Asparagus, a love story: healthier eating could be just a false memory away

scientific article published in January 2008

Belief in unconscious repressed memory is widespread: A comment on Brewin, Li, Ntarantana, Unsworth, and McNeilis (2019)

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Beliefs about forensic hypnosis

scientific article published in April 1986

Biography becomes autobiography: distorting the subjective past.

scientific article published in January 2004

Brief Exposure to Misinformation Can Lead to Long-Term False Memories

Calling Nurse Blaze: tailoring programs to fit human behavior

scientific article published on July 16, 1978

Cannabis increases susceptibility to false memory

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Catching Liars

scientific article published in December 2010

Change blindness can cause mistaken eyewitness identification

Changing beliefs about implausible autobiographical events: a little plausibility goes a long way.

scientific article published in March 2001

Clarkian Logic on Trial.

scientific article published in May 2012

Cognitive aspects of health survey methodology: an overview

scientific article published in January 1985

Cognitive aspects of health surveys for public information and policy

scientific article published in January 1985

Commentary: How, when, and whether to use informed consent for recovered memory therapy.

scientific article published in January 2001

Conditions affecting the revelation effect for autobiographical memory

scientific article

Contaminated evidence

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Convicting with confidence? Why we should not over-rely on eyewitness confidence

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Creating False Memories

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Creating bizarre false memories through imagination

article

Creating new memories that are quickly accessed and confidently held

scientific article published in September 1989

Current Issues and Advances in Misinformation Research

Dear diary, is plastic better than paper? I can't remember: Comment on Green, Rafaeli, Bolger, Shrout, and Reis (2006).

scientific article published in March 2006

Desperately seeking memories of the first few years of childhood: the reality of early memories

scientific article published in June 1993

Discrepancy detection and vulnerability to misleading postevent information

scientific article

Discrepancy detection in the retrieval-enhanced suggestibility paradigm.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Dispatch from the (un)civil memory wars

scientific article published in December 2004

Eavesdropping on Memory.

scientific article published in January 2017

Effective interrogation of the eyewitness

scientific article published on October 1, 1979

Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is your memory?

TEDGlobal 2013

Emotion and False Memory

article

Emotion and false memory: How goal-irrelevance can be relevant for what people remember

scientific article

Emotional content of true and false memories

scientific article published in January 2008

Errors in autobiographical memory

scientific article

Examining memory for heterosexual college students' sexual experiences using an electronic mail diary.

scientific article published in November 2002

Exploring the role of repetition and sensory elaboration in the imagination inflation effect

scientific article published in June 2003

Eye fixations and memory for emotional events

scientific article published on July 1, 1991

Eyewitness accounts of females and males

article

Eyewitness confidence malleability: Misinformation as post-identification feedback

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Eyewitness performance in different psychological types

scientific article

Eyewitness reliability

scientific article published on 01 July 1979

Eyewitness testimony in the Lockerbie bombing case

scientific article published on February 25, 2013

False Memories for Fake News During Ireland's Abortion Referendum

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

False accusations in an investigative context: differences between suggestible and non-suggestible witnesses.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

False beliefs about fattening foods can have healthy consequences

scientific article

False claims about false memory research

scientific article published on 22 August 2006

False memories for end-of-life decisions

scientific article published in March 2008

False memories in highly superior autobiographical memory individuals

scientific article

Federal regulations: make the punishment fit the crime

scientific article published on 01 February 1976

Fool me twice: how effective is debriefing in false memory studies?

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Forgetting sexual trauma: what does it mean when 38% forget?

scientific article

Hippocampal size is related to short-term true and false memory, and right fusiform size is related to long-term true and false memory

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

How memory research can benefit from CASM.

scientific article published in July 1998

How misinformation alters memories

scientific article published in November 1998

How to Tell If a Particular Memory Is True or False

scientific article published on July 2009

How well do people recall risk factor test results? Accuracy and bias among cholesterol screening participants

scientific article published in May 2006

If I'm Certain, Is It True? Accuracy and Confidence in Eyewitness Memory

scientific article published in May 2017

Illusions of Memory

Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred

scientific article published on June 1996

Imaging the reconstruction of true and false memories using sensory reactivation and the misinformation paradigms

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Impact of expert psychological testimony on the unreliability of eyewitness identification

scientific article

Increasing confidence in remote autobiographical memory and general knowledge: extensions of the revelation effect

scientific article published in April 2002

Individual differences in false memory from misinformation: Personality characteristics and their interactions with cognitive abilities

Individual differences in false memory from misinformation: cognitive factors

scientific article published in July 2010

Informed Consent May Be Hazardous to Health

scientific article published on 01 April 1979

Informed Consent: Right or Rite?

scientific article published on September 1, 1979

Integration of verbal and visual information as evidenced by distortions in picture memory

scientific article published on June 1, 1979

Intellectual factors in false memories of patients with schizophrenia

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Intelligence gathering post-9/11

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Is the unconscious smart or dumb?

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Lasting false beliefs and their behavioral consequences

scientific article published in August 2008

Lawyer's predictions of success

1988 article by Loftus and Wagenaar

Leading questions and the eyewitness report

Lost in the mall: misrepresentations and misunderstandings

scientific article (publication date: 1999)

Make-believe memories

scientific article (publication date: November 2003)

Measuring dissociation: comparison of alternative forms of the dissociative experiences scale.

scientific article

Memory Errors in Alibi Generation: How an Alibi Can Turn Against Us.

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Memory and law: what can cognitive neuroscience contribute?

scientific article published in February 2013

Memory blindness: Altered memory reports lead to distortion in eyewitness memory

scientific article

Memory distortion and false memory creation

scientific article published on January 1996

Memory experts' beliefs about repressed memory

article

Memory for events occurring under anesthesia

scientific article published in July 1985

Memory for memory

scientific article published in September 2001

Memory for traumatic events

Mental shock can produce retrograde amnesia

scientific article published in July 1982

Misinformation and memory: the creation of new memories

scientific article published in March 1989

Misinformation can influence memory for recently experienced, highly stressful events

scientific article published on December 6, 2012

Misinformation revisited: new evidence on the suggestibility of memory

scientific article

Misremembering pain: A memory blindness approach to adding a better end

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Misrepresentations and Flawed Logic About the Prevalence of False Memories.

scientific article

Multiple interactive memory representations underlie the induction of false memory

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Natural and unnatural cognition

scientific article published in August 1981

On science under legal assault

On the continuing lack of scientific evidence for repression

article

On the permanence of stored information in the human brain

scientific article published in May 1980

Our changeable memories: legal and practical implications

scientific article

Pandemics and infodemics: Research on the effects of misinformation on memory

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Patient-psychotherapist privilege: access to clinical records in the tangled web of repressed memory litigation

scientific article published in January 1996

Patient-psychotherapist privilege: access to clinical records in the tangled web of repressed memory litigation.

scientific article published in February 1997

Planting misinformation in the human mind: a 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory

scientific article

Pluto Behaving Badly: False Beliefs and Their Consequences

Pluto behaving badly: false beliefs and their consequences

scientific article

Pseudomemories without hypnosis

scientific article published in October 1994

Psychological aspects of courtroom testimony

scientific article published on January 1980

Psychologists in the eyewitness world

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Qualities of the unreal

scientific article published on April 1986

Recall strategies and memory for health-care visits

scientific article published in January 1990

Recalling pain and other symptoms

scientific article published in January 1985

Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory

article

Recovered memories

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

Remembering and Forgetting Childhood Sexual Abuse

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

Repetition, not number of sources, increases both susceptibility to misinformation and confidence in the accuracy of eyewitnesses

scientific article

Reports of suggested memories: Do people truly believe them?

scholarly article

Repressed memories. When are they real? How are they false?

scientific article

Repression: a mistaken impression?

scientific article published in January 1998

Resolving legal questions with psychological data

scientific article published on October 1, 1991

Resting state heart rate variability and false memories

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Ripple effects in memory: judgments of moral blame can distort memory for events

scientific article published in April 2006

Searching for the neurobiology of the misinformation effect

scientific article

Semantic integration of verbal information into a visual memory

scientific article published on January 1, 1978

Semantic memory: Searching for attributes vs searching for names

scientific article published on May 1974

Shifting human color memory

scientific article published in November 1977

Silence is not golden

Since the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, has anyone beaten you up? Improving the accuracy of retrospective reports with landmark events.

scientific article published in March 1983

Skirting the issue: What does believing in repression mean?

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Sleep deprivation and false confessions

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Sleep deprivation and false memories

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Social influences on reality-monitoring decisions

scientific article published in April 2001

Some deleterious consequences of the act of recollection

scientific article published in May 1988

Some facts about "weapon focus."

article

Susceptibility to memory distortion: how do we decide it has occurred?

scientific article published in January 2006

Taus v. Loftus: Determining the Legal Ground Rules for Scholarly Inquiry

The Consequences of False Memories for Food Preferences and Choices

scientific article published on March 2009

The Construction of Space Alien Abduction Memories

The Devil in Confessions

scientific article published in November 2004

The Formation of False Memories

scientific article published in December 1995

The Red Herring technique: a methodological response to the problem of demand characteristics

scientific article published on 4 August 2007

The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

The fate of memory: comment on McCloskey and Zaragoza

scientific article published in September 1985

The glitter of everyday memory ... and the gold

scientific article

The influence of one memory retrieval on a subsequent memory retrieval

scientific article published in May 1974

The malleability of human memory

scientific article published on May 1, 1979

The messy landscape of eye movements and false memories

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

The persistence of false beliefs.

scientific article

The possible role of source misattributions in the creation of false beliefs among preschoolers

scientific article (publication date: October 1994)

The potential perils of informed consent.

scientific article published in July 2008

The reality of repressed memories

scientific article

The relationship between DRM and misinformation false memories

scientific article published on August 2013

The repressed memory controversy

scientific article published in May 1994

The revelation effect for autobiographical memory: a mixture-model analysis

scientific article

The trauma model of dissociation: inconvenient truths and stubborn fictions. Comment on Dalenberg et al. (2012).

scientific article

Traumatic memories are not necessarily accurate memories

scientific article

Treat and trick: A new way to increase false memory

Trivial persuasion in the courtroom: the power of (a few) minor details

scientific article published on May 1989

True but not false memories are associated with the HTR2A gene

scientific article

Unconscious repressed memory is scientifically questionable

scientific article published on 18 August 2014

Using semantic memory to find vs create a mood

scientific article published on May 1974

Vivid persuasion in the courtroom

scientific article published on 01 December 1985

Warning: Even memory for faces may be contagious

article

When A Lie Becomes Memory's Truth: Memory Distortion After Exposure to Misinformation

When dreams become reality

scientific article published in December 1996

Who is susceptible in three false memory tasks?

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

‘Memory work’: A royal road to false memories?