FREEDOM FORUM: Discussion

Make a Comment

Comments in Response


Comment by Karen Trynnelle
Entered on:

Loftus' work has been critiqued by several scholars. Her work has been misapplied to trauma memory.  Her research involves non traumatic settings, like being lost in a mall.

She has published studies showing evidence of recovered memory. (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 18 (1994) 67-84.)

 http://users.owt.com/crook/memory/
"Lost in a Shopping Mall"—A Breach of Professional Ethics
ETHICS & BEHAVIOR, vol. 9, #1, pp. 39-50

http://www.jimhopper.com/memory/#el
Elizabeth Loftus 

  • Loftus herself conducted and published a study in which nearly one in five women who reported childhood sexual abuse also reported completely forgetting the abuse for some period of time and recovering the memory of it later.
  • Loftus misrepresented the facts of a legal case in a scholarly paper and, after finally apologizing to the victim of her misrepresentations, continued to promote the article with falsehoods.
  •  

     

    Make a Comment