When Elizabeth was 14 years old, her mother passed away in a drowning accident.
Career
Loftus’s work has made her a figure of acclaim, scrutiny and even fury.
She has testified at many trials, including those of accused child-murderer George Franklin and serial killer Ted Bundy.
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Personal Experience With Memory
Loftus has close experience with the frailty and fallibility of human memory.
Leading questions and the eyewitness report.Cognitive Psychology,7, 560572.
& Loftus, E.F. (1976).Human Memory: The Processing of Information.Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
Loftus, E.F. & Doyle, J.
(1987).Eyewitness Testimony: Civil and Criminal.NY: Kluwer.
Loftus, E.F.; Hoffman, H.G.
Misinformation and memory: The creation of memory.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,118(1),100104.
Nieman, J.The Diva of Disclosure: Elizabeth Loftus.Psychology Today.
Haggbloom SJ, Warnick R, Warnick JE, et.
UCI School of Social Ecology.Elizabeth F. Loftus.
University of California, Irvine School of Law.Gold Medal Award for the Lifetime Achievement in the Science of Psychology.
