False Memory Syndrome, Misinformation and Memory, and the Creation of New Memories

Articles

• "Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory," LEARNING & MEMORY 12:361-366, ISSN 1072-0502/05, Elizabeth F. Loftus. (July 18, 2005)
• "Make-believe memories," American Psychologist (November 2003).
• "Our changeable memories: legal and practical implications," in Nature Reviews: Neuroscience (2003).
• "Memory Faults and Fixes" in Issues in Science & Technology (2002; publication of the National Academies of Science)
• "Who Abused Jane Doe?" in The Skeptical Inquirer (2002)
• "Make my Memory" in Psychology & Marketing (2002)
• "Imagination and...power" in The Psychologist (2001)
• "Memory's Future" in Psychology Today (2001)
• "Changing Beliefs About Implausible Events " in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (2001)
• "Dream Interpretation and False Beliefs," in Professional Psychology (1999)
• "The Price of Bad Memories" in The Skeptical Inquirer (1998)
• "Advertising's Misinformation Effect" in Applied Cognitive Psychology (1998)
• "Creating False Memories" in Scientific American (1997)
• "Imagination Inflation" in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (1996)
• Memory Distortion and False Memory Creation, in Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 24 (3) 281-295, Loftus, Elizabeth (1996)
  
• Information about, and a chapter from, The Myth of Repressed Memory (1994)
• "The Reality of Repressed Memories" in American Psychologist (1993)
• "Misinformation and Memory" in Journal of Experimental Psychology:G (1989)

Books

Eyewitness Testimony   Elizabeth F. Loftus (1996) Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press  (revised edition of 1979 book).

The Myth of Repressed Memory :  False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse   Elizabeth F. Loftus, Katherine Ketcham (1994)  St. Martin's Press.

Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial   Elizabeth F. Loftus, Katherine Ketcham (1991) St. Martin's Press.

Articles about Loftus' Work...

• The University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in 2005 to Elizabeth Loftus.
• American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of
  Psychology (2003) and accompanying article.
•  "The High Cost of Skepticism" in Skeptical Inquirer by Carol Tavris.
• "War & remembrance," in the Orange County Register by Amy Wilson.
• "The diva of disclosure, memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus" in Psychology Today by Jill Neimark.