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Elizabeth Loftus, the Glossary

Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies.^[1]

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Alan Alda

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world.

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Angelo Buono Jr.

Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, were known as the Hillside Stranglers.

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Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare.

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Bel Air, Los Angeles

Bel Air (or Bel-Air) is a residential neighborhood on the Los Angeles Westside, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains in the U.S. state of California.

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Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk (born 1943) is a Dutch psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator.

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Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival

Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival was the first gathering of The Science Network's annual Beyond Belief symposia, held from November 5–7, 2006, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

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British Psychological Society

The British Psychological Society (BPS) is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom.

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Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a program within the U.S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." Paul Kurtz proposed the establishment of CSICOP in 1976 as an independent non-profit organization (before merging with CFI as one of its programs in 2015), to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general.

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Daniel Schacter

Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952) is an American psychologist. Elizabeth Loftus and Daniel Schacter are memory researchers.

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David Corwin

David L. Corwin is a board-certified psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, and forensic psychiatrist.

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Diana Napolis

Diana Louisa Napolis (born 1955), also known by her online pseudonym Karen Curio Jones or more often simply Curio, is an American former social worker.

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Dickinson College

Dickinson College is a private liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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Dissociative amnesia

Dissociative amnesia or psychogenic amnesia is a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps.

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DSM-5

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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Expert witness

An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.

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False memory

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened.

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False Memory Syndrome Foundation

--> The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 and dissolved in late 2019.

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Florence Rush

Florence Rush (23 January 1918 – 9 December 2008) was an American certified social worker (M.S.W. from the University of PennsylvaniaLove, Barbara J. and Nancy F. Cott. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963—1975. University of Illinois Press, 2008 p. 399), feminist theorist and organizer best known for introducing The Freudian Coverup in her presentation "The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View", about childhood sexual abuse and incest, at the April 1971 New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) Rape Conference.

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Freud's seduction theory

Freud's seduction theory (Verführungstheorie) was a hypothesis posited in the mid-1890s by Sigmund Freud that he believed provided the solution to the problem of the origins of hysteria and obsessional neurosis.

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Geoffrey Loftus

Geoffrey Loftus (born December 24, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. Elizabeth Loftus and Geoffrey Loftus are Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, memory researchers and university of Washington faculty.

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Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell (born 25 December 1961) is a British former socialite and convicted sex offender.

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Goldsmiths, University of London

Goldsmiths, University of London, legally the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London.

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Grawemeyer Awards

The Grawemeyer Awards are five awards given annually by the University of Louisville.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender.

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ICD-11

The ICD-11 is the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

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Jane Doe case

The Jane Doe case is an influential childhood sexual abuse and recovered memory case study published by psychiatrist David Corwin and Erna Olafson (1997).

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Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953August 10, 2019) was an American financier and sex offender.

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born March 28, 1941, as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is an American author.

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Jennifer Freyd

Jennifer Joy Freyd (born October 16, 1957, in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American psychologist, researcher, author, educator, and speaker.

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Jim Coan

James Arthur Coan, Jr. (born July 11, 1969) is an American affective neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, writer, podcast host, human rights activist, and psychology professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he serves as director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.

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John Bowlby

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby, CBE, FBA, FRCP, FRCPsych (26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory.

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John Maddox Prize

The John Maddox Prize is an international prize administered by Sense about Science in partnership with Nature.

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Julia Shaw (psychologist)

Julia Shaw (born January 20, 1987) is a German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specialises in false memories.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Lenore Terr

Lenore C. Terr (born New York City, 1936) is a psychiatrist and author known for her research into childhood trauma.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lost in the mall technique

The "lost in the mall" technique or experiment is a memory implantation technique used to demonstrate that confabulations about events that never took place – such as having been lost in a shopping mall as a child – can be created through suggestions made to experimental subjects that their older relative was present at the time.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.

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Memory inhibition

In psychology, memory inhibition is the ability not to remember irrelevant information.

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Misinformation effect

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information.

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Murder trial of O. J. Simpson

The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.

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Oedipus complex

In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.

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Peter J. Freyd

Peter John Freyd (born February 5, 1936) is an American mathematician, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work in category theory and for founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Psychonomic Society

The Psychonomic Society is an international scientific society of over 4,500 scientists in the field of experimental psychology.

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Recovered-memory therapy

Recovered-memory therapy (RMT) is a catch-all term for a controversial and scientifically discredited form of psychotherapy that critics say utilizes one or more unproven therapeutic techniques (such as some forms of psychoanalysis, hypnosis, journaling, past life regression, guided imagery, and the use of sodium amytal interviews) to purportedly help patients recall previously forgotten memories.

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Repressed memory

Repressed memory is a controversial, and largely scientifically discredited, psychiatric phenomenon which involves an inability to recall autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.

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Review of General Psychology

Review of General Psychology is the quarterly scientific journal of the American Psychological Association Division 1: The Society for General Psychology.

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Richard McNally

Richard McNally (born April 17, 1954) is an American psychologist and director of clinical training at Harvard University's department of psychology.

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Robert Durst

Robert Alan Durst (April 12, 1943 – January 10, 2022) was an American real estate heir, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer.

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Scientific American Frontiers

Scientific American Frontiers was an American science television program aired by PBS from 1990 to 2005.

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Semantic memory

Semantic memory refers to general world knowledge that humans have accumulated throughout their lives.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American general-audience magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Supreme Court of California

The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California.

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Taus v. Loftus

Taus v. Loftus, 151 P.3d 1185 (Cal. 2007) was a Supreme Court of California case in which the court held that academic researchers' publication of information relating to a study by another researcher was newsworthy and subject to protection under the state's anti-SLAPP act.

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Ted Bundy

Theodore Robert Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls during the 1970s.

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The Assault on Truth

The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory is a book by the former psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, in which the author argues that Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, deliberately suppressed his early hypothesis, known as the seduction theory, that hysteria is caused by sexual abuse during infancy, because he refused to believe that children are the victims of sexual violence and abuse within their own families.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Memory Wars

The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute is a 1995 book that reprints articles by the critic Frederick Crews critical of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and recovered-memory therapy.

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The Myth of Repressed Memory

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse is a 1994 book by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham, published by St. Martin's Press.

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The New School

The New School is a private research university in New York City.

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The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational institution that is one of the divisions of The New School in New York City, United States.

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Ulric Neisser

Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-American psychologist, Cornell University professor, and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has been referred to as the "father of cognitive psychology". Elizabeth Loftus and Ulric Neisser are American cognitive psychologists and memory researchers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus

Also known as Beth Loftus, Elisabeth Loftus, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Elizabeth Fishman, Elizabeth f loftus, Loftus, Elizabeth.

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John Maddox Prize recipients

Mathematicians from California

Survey methodologists

Women cognitive scientists

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