Quotes from Elizabeth Loftus

M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.