The Meaning of Memory
Understanding the Fallible Mind
$31.45
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2027
Summary
From the world’s leading memory researcher, a provocative answer to an existential question: How far can we trust our own memories?
Most of us think our memories are a tidy archive of high-definition footage, a recording of our most meaningful experiences. But over the course of decades of research, psychologist and memory expert Elizabeth Loftus has come to an unsettling conclusion: our recollections are fragile, malleable constructions, altered every time we access …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241803714 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241803713 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Loftus |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
The most influential female psychologist of the twentieth century – Rachel Aviv * The New Yorker *
The Meaning of Memory is a memoir of memory itself, setting loose a flood of complexities such that our mentality becomes the true subject of this fascinating account – Lawrence Wright, author of THE LOOMING TOWER
Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth Loftus is a psychology and criminology professor at the University of California, Irvine and a distinguished professor of law. She received her PhD in psychology from Stanford University and has published more than 20 books and over 600 scientific articles on memory. She has consulted in hundreds of high-profile legal cases and litigations, as part of her mission to educate everyday people on the truth about our memories.
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