Elizabeth Loftus

The juror said that, ultimately, the jury found that all of the victims were credible.

The defense team focused strongly on its memory expert, Professor Elizabeth Loftus.

Loftus testified about experiments that had been conducted in which researchers had successfully implanted a false memory into the mind of research subjects.

I mean, talk about Yahoo quackery.

And the problem is that he said, she said, is not a reliable standard for conviction.

memory even even when the other party means well even when the accusing party is innocent and honest memory is highly unreliable it degrades with time it is refrained with time see the studies by elizabeth loftus sexual offenses the reporting of sexual offenses should be time debarred.

There should be a statute of limitation on how long after the event you can report it.

You can complain to the police.

The Frades recruited a highly credentialed advisory board.

Among the members were Paul McHugh... known in recent years for insisting that transgender people suffer from a psychological disorder, and Elizabeth Loftus, a psychology professor who testified on behalf of Ted Bundy in his 1976 Utah trial before he escaped and went on another killing spree.

Yeah, that's, that's another thing.

I don't know if he went on that killing spree.

Um, Perhaps no one alive has been harder on memory's reputation than Loftus.

Absolutely.

Elizabeth Loftus would have us believe that memory basically doesn't fucking exist, according to her.

In 1974, the Department of Transportation... awarded Loftus, then a newly minted Ph.D. in psychology, a grant to study memory distortion among eyewitnesses of car accidents.

All right, next.

An essay in Scroll argues AI is changing how we remember, citing MIT research with memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus.

In a 2024 study, 200 people watched a crime video, then answered questions from an AI interviewer.

The chatbot version produced over three times as many false memories as the control group.

So it was really controversial.

There was a U.S. psychologist named Elizabeth Loftus, She was one of the key people in criticizing repressed memory as a non-existent condition that's only being assisted by therapists of perhaps good intent, who knows, but it was a false memory.

She got death threats and all sorts of things for that.

Since then, it's probably still being used.

Okay.

Well, one of the queens of what we call eyewitness memory, Elizabeth Loftus, usually recounted as one of the top 10 psychologists of our time.

Wow.

Yeah, pretty cool.

Yeah,

just to pick up on the negatives, because they also talk about Elizabeth Loftus' famous work on sort of false memories, which is fantastic.

And Loftus' earlier work on eyewitness testimony is really critical here as well, where... you can change people's memories of the events with really subtle things.

Like she, in the very famous 1974 study, changed the verb used in a question about the speed of some cars.