False memories - Lost in a shopping mall - Elizabeth Loftus

Can we form memories of something that never happened?

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• Loftus

[ManFromMelbourne]

Wonder how much the c.i.a is paying this Loftus fraud to spread her bullshit?

[thibs44]

@ManFromMelbourne what are you smoking, my friend?

[stopritualabuse]

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There are significant flaws in Loftus Lost in the Mall study. A similar study by Pezdek in 1995 found that while researchers were able to duplicate the lost in the mall results with 15% of their subjects, none of the study participants accepted an erroneous memory that they had received a painful enema as a child. Crook states the studys application to therapy situations appears to be limited to a narrowly defined and perhaps even unlikely situation

[thibs44]

Still, Loftus's entire program of research is compelling. The conclusion that people are capable of reporting something that never happened (because of memory's malleability) is on very solid scientific ground.

[jen8rve]

@ManFromMelbourne- You're so right. Dr. Martin Orne a member of the FMSF along with Loftus, is CIA. In John Bradshaw's book 'Family Secrets',he mentions Trauma 1 and Trauma 2 memories. 'Trauma sets up new rules for memory. Loftus' 'research' doesn't prove that incest memories can be confabulated since they're much more severe. Repeatedly traumatized children are less likely to make perceptual mistakes about their abuse.'

[Elaz61]

Inception (H)

[stopritualabuse]

@suemiller1000 Crook, L.S., & Dean, M. (1999). "Lost in a shopping mall" A breach of professional ethics. Ethics & Behavior, 9(1), 39-50 and Crook, L.S., & Dean, M. (1999). Logical fallacies and ethical breaches. Ethics & Behavior, 9(1), 61-68

---- Pezdek, K. (1995, November). Planting False Childhood Memories: The Role of Event Plausibility , Kathy Pezdek, Kimberly Finger and Danelle Hodge

Psychological Science Vol. 8, No. 6 (Nov., 1997), pp. 437-441

[suemiller1000]

@stopritualabuse Can you provide the complete reference to me please-Full Title of the article,(Year of publication),Title of the publication.Issue or part number of that publication in the aforementioned year,the publication date printed on the cover.The Publisher:City and country of publication.isbn and or congress catalogue numbers. Thankyou Sue

[stopritualabuse]

Elizabeth Loftus herself has published studies showing evidence of recovered memory. Loftus published a paper with colleagues on Remembering and Repressing in 1994. In a study of 105 women outpatients in a substance abuse clinic 54 % reported a history of childhood sexual abuse. 81% remembered all or part of the abuse. 19% reported they forgot the abuse for a period of time and later the memory returned.

(Psychology of Women Quarterly, 18 (1994) 67-84.)

[stopritualabuse]

Hopper, J.. "Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse Scientific Research & Scholarly Resources". "Loftus has conducted and published research which calls into question her public statements on recovered memories; her own study demonstrated that the conditions of amnesia and delayed recall for sexual abuse do exist"

[stopritualabuse]

Crook, L. (1999). "Lost in a Shopping Mall - A Breach of Professional Ethics.". Ethics & Behavior. 9 “An analysis of the mall study shows that beyond the external misrepresentations, internal scientific methodological errors cast doubt on the validity of the claims that have been attributed to the mall study within scholarly and legal arenas.”

[AnneFox7]

@AnneFox7 Issues =prostitution, sexual assault, date rape, marital sexual abuse, degrading encounters-multiple partners, LGTQ experimentation or approaches, sado masochism, fetishes/porn addiction, shame or guilt associated with experiences, abortions, rejection or emotional and psychological trauma, illness such as sexually transmitted disease, bullying racism, internalization of racism. Any matter which is not or can not be accepted by the therapist as traumatic& confusing can be transferred.

[AnneFox7]

@specificskin If for example it is unacceptable to have a sense of loss or grief and a believe that a child has been lost after an abortion to a therapist. She may transfer trauma to a politically acceptable issue (most likely a trend in diagnosis or funded foray) in which she can create an out for the patient involved in a recent traumatic late term abortion. Many therapists believe the truth is highly over-rated and they condemn patients to a life-time of denial/ dependency or pharma.

[AnneFox7]

@AnneFox7 In many cases the issue is that the individuals receiving the complaints have in co-operation with offenders covered up abuse of the child. Most often done by Alberta Children's services affiliates since 1942. Members of the "protective"services in child welfare are aware of abuse reported to both them the local police or the RCMP and the many others involved. They cover for offenders by pretending the child is mentally ill. They track and blame victims not their offenders.