[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
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Elizabeth F. Loftus
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The thought had occurred to me as I was flying to Salt Lake City earlier that day that Ted Bundy might offer to let me stay in his apartment_ (p. 74).(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976)
In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge__ chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He__ adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I__ pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain (p. 83).(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976, Bundy was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping)