False Memories (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the controversy that surrounds the subject of false or repressed memories. "Some insurance companies have refused to insure psychotherapists if they do recovered memory therapy," Dr. ...
Suggestive Techniques
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about some of the techniques used to spur the recollection of supposedly repressed memories. "But it's exactly these techniques," Dr. Loftus says, "...that I and others have worried are so ...
False Memory Research
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about research experiments that look at consequences and repercussions after false memories have been planted in the minds of experiment subjects. Dr. Loftus also touches on some potential ...
False Memories (Part Two)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of false or repressed memories. Dr. Loftus explains that, while there are genuine cases of repressed memory, there are also those which she calls the "hey, me, too, cases...
When A Study Ends
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the reactions of her subjects when research studies end. "After having debriefed more than two thousand subjects in whom I've attempted to plant a false memory over the last quarter c...
Neuroimaging
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the use of neuroimaging and other techniques which she believes will increasingly be utilized to show which aspects of the brain are activated during memory processes.