Whose experiments showed that people can misremember details of events after seeing them?

Elizabeth Loftus, an American psychologist, became famous for her work on the malleability of memory. In studies from the 1970s onward, she showed that the way questions are phrased can alter what people remember about an event. Her research had major implications for eyewitness testimony, courtroom evidence, and false memories. Loftus’s work remains central to understanding why memory is not a perfect recording of the past.