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Quotes from Eyewitness Testimony — Elizabeth Loftus

born 1944 United States

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In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

Eyewitness Testimony (1979)

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

Eyewitness Testimony (1979)

The results were clear: the new environment inhibited recognition.

Eyewitness Testimony (1979)

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.

Eyewitness Testimony (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Loftus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.