Elizabeth Loftus elected to National Academy of Sciences

CSICOP Fellow Elizabeth Loftus has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist. She was one of seventy-two new members of the Academy elected at its annual meeting in Washington on April 20, 2004.

The National Academy of Sciences is a congressionally chartered private organization dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. Its 1,949 members are among the most distinguished scientists in the nation.

Loftus is Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine.

She is particularly noted for her studies of memory, emphasizing the ability of the mind to create false memories. She has written numerous articles in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, most recently "I Am Freud's Brain" (with Maryanne Garry, May/June 2004), "Memory Recovery Techniques in Psychotherapy" (with Steven Jay Lynn, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Timothy Lock, July/ August 2003), and the two-part article "Who Abused Jane Doe?" (with Melvin J. Guyer, May/June and August/ September 2002).

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