{"product_id":"elizabeth-loftus-josh-graham-9798190614237","title":"Elizabeth Loftus: A Gateway to Her Life, Ideas, and Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA witness pointed at a photograph and said it looked closest to the man who attacked her. By the trial, she was certain. She was also wrong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteve Titus lost his job, his engagement and his savings to a mistaken identification. The psychologist who worked on his case, Elizabeth Loftus, spent the next half-century asking the question it left behind: how does a memory travel from hesitant to unshakeable - and why does everyone in the courtroom, including the witness, mistake that growing confidence for growing accuracy? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this concise, accessible gateway, Josh Graham traces Loftus's journey from a mathematics student in post-war Los Angeles to one of the most cited - and most fiercely contested - psychologists of her generation. Her experiments showed that memory is not a recording but a reconstruction: rebuilt each time we recall it, and open to editing by a single word in a question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside, you'll discover: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- How one verb in a question changed what people said they saw - the 1974 car-crash study that launched the misinformation effect\u003cbr\u003e- The \"lost in the mall\" experiment, and the fierce argument still running over how often a whole false memory can really be planted\u003cbr\u003e- What modern science actually says about confidence: why courtroom certainty misleads, and why a witness's first answer can be worth trusting\u003cbr\u003e- The memory wars - recovered memories, ruined families, and a scientist who became one of the most hated figures in American psychology for following her data\u003cbr\u003e- A fair reckoning with the criticism: the lawsuits, the two ethics complaints that were closed without ever being examined, and the charge that doubt about memory can be turned against people telling the truth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLoftus never claimed that memory is worthless, or that people who report abuse should be disbelieved. She showed something narrower and more unsettling: that a memory can be sincere, detailed, emotional - and mistaken. This is the ideal introduction to a body of work that helped courts understand how innocent people end up convicted, and that still asks uncomfortable questions of anyone who has ever been certain about the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart of the Pioneers of Human Behaviour series - gateway books on the minds that shaped us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190614237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Josh Graham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666082763007,"sku":"9798190614237","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/elizabeth-loftus-josh-graham-9798190614237","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}