Biography elizabeth loftus

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Elizabeth Loftus was born Elizabeth Fishman (Neimark, 1996). She grew up in Bel Air California (Neimark, 1996). Her mother's drowning when Loftus was 14 has had a dramatic affect on her life (Neimark, 1996). Loftus attended UCLA for her undergraduate grad (Neimark, 1996). She originally wanted to be a high school math teacher, but began to like psychology after she took a class at UCLA (Neimark, 1996). Loftus attended graduate school at Stanford (Neimark, 1996). It was here that she met Geoffrey Loftus, the man she married in 1968 (Neimark, 1996). It was also at Stanford the she became interested in long begrepp memory (Neimark, 1996).

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Profile of Elizabeth F. Loftus

Abit of mystery surrounded Elizabeth Loftus's arrival at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) in August of 1966. At that time, a female graduate student in psychology, especially mathematical psychology, was a rare sight. Fellow students did not know quite what to make of this talkative and engaging woman from Bel Air, CA, who was obviously talented but apparently disinterested in mathematical theories. In an informal poll, her colleagues at Stanford voted her least likely to succeed as a psychologist, and soon a pool even sprang up to guess when Loftus would return to Los Angeles and pursue a more glamorous profession.

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Loftus never dropped out of graduate school, however, and almost 40 years later has managed to prove her doubters wrong. Currently a distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine (I

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Elizabeth F. Loftus (born Elizabeth Fishman, in 1944)^[1]^[2] is an American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory. Loftus is best known for her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory,^[3] and the creation and nature of false memories,^[4] including recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.^[5] As well as her pr