UCI Professor Awarded 2016 John Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science
Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 17:31
in Psychology & Sociology
- Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor of psychology & social behavior and criminology, law & society at the University of California, Irvine, was awarded the international John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science today in London. Best known for her groundbreaking work on the "misinformation effect" - in which the memories of eyewitnesses are altered by exposure to incorrect information about events - she was also honored for her pioneering research on the creation and nature of false memories.