In a post a while back, I said there were two interesting things in the latest issue of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation newsletter (at http://www.fmsfonline.org/currentnewsletter.pdf )
My previous post concerned Pope's challenge to find a pre-1800 example of repressed memory. This one is about Elizabeth Loftus' court case resulting from her brilliant investigation of an alleged case of repressed and recovered memory (Loftus, 2002). The woman at the centre of Loftus' investigation sued Loftus for invasion of privacy, in a case which attracted major attention as a test of free speech. The FMSF newsletter reported that the California Supreme Court has now tossed out all but one of the claims against Loftus, and ordered that the woman who brought the dismissed charges be required to pay Loftus' expenses in defending herself against them. One charge was allowed to go forward: that Loftus had misrepresented herself to the foster mother in collecting information about the case. Loftus denies this. Stephen Loftus, E. (2002). "Who Abused Jane Doe? The Hazards of the Single Case History. Skeptical Inquirer, 26, #3, pp 24-32 http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/JaneDoe.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
