Even if it's going to be a harmful memory, they don't want … - Elizabeth Loftus

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Even if it's going to be a harmful memory, they don't want to let it go. (This is) why sometimes I get such resistance to the work I do. Because it's telling people that your mind might be full of much more fiction than you realize. And people don't like that.

Elizabeth Loftus

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Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist and expert on human memory.

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Birth Name: Elizabeth Fishman

Native Name: Elizabeth F. Loftus

Alternative Names: Loftus

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The problem is clear: the unreliability of eyewitness identification evidence poses one of the most serious problems in the administration of criminal justice and civil litigation.

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