# How reliable is your memory?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2013
- Speaker: Elizabeth Loftus
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, Philosophy
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_how_reliable_is_your_memory)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics -- and raises some important ethical questions.

## Lectures

1. [How reliable is your memory?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/elizabeth_loftus_how_reliable_is_your_memory/ed382eeb6acd), 18 min (TED's player)