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Psychology History (1765 words) |
 | Loftus was born in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 1944, to Sidney and Rebecca Fishman. |
| Loftus does not deny child sexual abuse occurs or that it might be possible for the mind to repress a trauma, but she questions the accuracy of those memories and the techniques used to resurface such memories. |
| Loftus' main argument and support for her theory is that there are no controlled scientific experiments to prove that repressed memories actually exist. |
| The diva of disclosure, Elizabeth Loftus (4249 words) |
| Loftus has spent most of her life steadily amassing a clear and brilliant body of work showing that memory is amazingly fragile and inventive. |
| Though Beth Loftus is gregarious, warm, and (as one friend states) "always seems to be on a high without the aid of chemical infusion" she burst into tears twice in the first 20 minutes of our interview. |
| Loftus' graduate students took the famous Demi Moore picture on the cover of Vanity Fair (Demi's Birthday Suit--in which the naked actress had a tuxedo and striped shirt painted onto her body), substituted Loftus's face, and framed it for her. |
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