Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology, one of the most influential modern researchers who has made enormous contributions to understanding the reconstructive nature of human memory, shares her observations on how memory works, collected over many years of her theoretical, experimental and practical work. “Danger.” testimony is obvious: any person in our world can be convicted of a crime that he did not commit, or deprived of a well-deserved reward solely on the basis of the testimony of a witness... The real cases described in this book as a whole make up the story of how my life thanks to my research and attempts the use of their results in the justice sector intersected with the lives of people accused of violent crimes. At the same time, it is also the story of the families of the accused, the story of crime victims and their families, and the lawyers, judges and jurors who play critical roles in all these cases. But ultimately this is a story about human memory, about this fascinating and incredibly complex ability of ours that allows us to go back to the past and relive, and in many cases, reimagine it.” Elizabeth Loftus