Elizabeth Loftus is a very famous psychologist that was born in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 1944. Even though she is mainly known as Elizabeth Loftus, she was actually born as Elizabeth Fishman and grew up in Bel Air, California. Sidney and Rebecca Fishman were her parents name and her father was a doctor and her mother was a librarian. Elizabeth’s mom passed away due to her drowning and Elizabeth was just 14 years old, which had a dramatic affect on her life (Neimark, 1996). In 1968, Elizabeth married a psychologist by the name of Geoffrey Loftus but they divorced in 1991 and had no children. As of the moment Elizabeth is 70 and still alive. She extended her research into eyewitness testimony and repressed memories (Neimark, 1996,
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The way that she began all of her research was with investigations on the way that the mind puts information and how it remembers information. She began to reevaluate the way that her research was going in the 1970’s. In the article "Diva of Disclosure" (1996) she stated "I wanted my work to make a difference in people's lives” (Neimark,1996) Therefore, she began her research on traumatically bottled-up memories and eyewitness interpretations. Doing so many things at the same time she found herself being right in the middle of lots of things for example sexual abuse stories and defending accused offenders. Due to that, she ended up being in many courtrooms to testify in over 200 trials (1974) as an expert witness for unreliability of eyewitness testimonies based on false memories. Elizabeth did say that she believed it all to be triggered, suggested, implanted, or created by the mind. Elizabeth has testified in many trials but included in those were those of mass murderer Ted Bundy and George Franklin. The reason why she testifies is because she has hope that an innocent victim goes to prison for a crime he/she didn’t commit. Elizabeth Loftus has appeared on many of the many shows that exist and has published 19 books and over 200 articles. One of her books named "The Myth of Repressed Memory" (1994) was written with a
The way that she began all of her research was with investigations on the way that the mind puts information and how it remembers information. She began to reevaluate the way that her research was going in the 1970’s. In the article "Diva of Disclosure" (1996) she stated "I wanted my work to make a difference in people's lives” (Neimark,1996) Therefore, she began her research on traumatically bottled-up memories and eyewitness interpretations. Doing so many things at the same time she found herself being right in the middle of lots of things for example sexual abuse stories and defending accused offenders. Due to that, she ended up being in many courtrooms to testify in over 200 trials (1974) as an expert witness for unreliability of eyewitness testimonies based on false memories. Elizabeth did say that she believed it all to be triggered, suggested, implanted, or created by the mind. Elizabeth has testified in many trials but included in those were those of mass murderer Ted Bundy and George Franklin. The reason why she testifies is because she has hope that an innocent victim goes to prison for a crime he/she didn’t commit. Elizabeth Loftus has appeared on many of the many shows that exist and has published 19 books and over 200 articles. One of her books named "The Myth of Repressed Memory" (1994) was written with a