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Elizabeth Loftus, Past President of APS, is an internationally recognized expert in the study of human memory, particularly the malleability of memories. Her extensive research shows that memory is highly susceptible to distortion and manipulation, and that people can vividly recall events that never happened. Her research on false memory, the reliability of eyewitness reports, and memories "recovered" through therapy has affected how law enforcement, courts, and psychologists consider eyewitness testimony. Loftus is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has received the highest scientific honors for her work.

Learn about famous psychologists and explore different types of psychology, including behavioral, cognitive, and clinical, through this Education Portal course. Designed to prepare you to earn real college credit by passing the Psychology CLEP and Psychology Excelsior exams, this course features video lessons ranging in topic from the importance of psychology to operant conditioning and from memory distortion to reasons we sleep and dream. Our psychology instructors are experienced and knowledgeable educators, and they've designed the videos for this course to be brief yet comprehensive and entertaining. You'll also have access to self-assessment quizzes, which will allow you to gauge how much you've learned.

Doctored images can affect what we eat, how we vote and even our childhood recollections. The question scientists are asking is why there's nothing we can do to stop it.

If we remember dramatic and emotional moments so well, why do most people forget what they were doing when the Challenger exploded?

If we remember dramatic and emotional moments so well, why do most people forget what they were doing when the Challenger exploded?