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Elizabeth Loftus read mathematics and psychology at University College, Los Angeles, and took a PhD in cognitive psychology at Stanford University in 1970. She became a professor of psychology and law at the University of Washington. After the “Jane Doe” fracas in 2001, she moved to the University of California at Irvine, to become Distinguished Professor in psychology and social behaviour; cognitive sciences; and criminology, law and society. Many of her papers are at: www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/loftus. She has co-authored a book, The Myth of Repressed Memory (St Martin’s Press, 1994).

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