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  • 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.

    "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.
  • 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.

    "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.
  • 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.

  • When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

    Together   Pieces   Might  
    "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.
  • Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

    "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.
  • When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.

    "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.
  • You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

    People  
    "To Enhance Justice: The Risk and Reward of Studying Memory". thehumanist.com. October 25, 2016.
  • Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

    "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.
  • We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

    "How reliable is your memory?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
  • In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

    Real   Believe   People  
    "Eyewitness Testimony". Book by Elizabeth Loftus, 1979.
  • We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

    "I Could Have Sworn …". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.
  • To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

    "Eyewitness Testimony". Book by Elizabeth Loftus, 1979.
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