E008: RE-RELEASE: Elizabeth Loftus

About this episode

Garth interviews Elizabeth Loftus about her influential work on eyewitness testimony and false memories, as well as current issues related to misinformation.

In this RE-RELEASE episode Garth interviews Elizabeth Loftus from the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, CA. It was a Psychology Today magazine article in 1974 that launched her public fame, and her eyewitness testimony and false memory work have lasting influence. She is a world-renown expert who has experienced cancel culture, death threats, but also induction into the National Academy of Sciences. Elizabeth discusses the current state of misinformation, challenges in solving the two-body problem, and more.

People in this episode

Guest: Elizabeth Loftus

Topics covered

• eyewitness testimony
• false memory
• misinformation
• cancel culture

Keywords

• psychology
• National Academy of Sciences
• two-body problem

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Irvine, CA

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