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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.
Elizabeth Loftus
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Elizabeth Loftus
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 16
Forensic Psychologist
Psychologist
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University Teacher
LA
California
Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth Fishman
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