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Geoffrey Loftus (born December 24, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. He specializes in memory and attention, and his most recent research focuses on face perception and hindsight bias.
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Warm-up
Honeywell Corporation: computer programmer (machine-code and assembly-language), summers, 1966, 1967 Stanford University, Department of Psychology: research assistant/teaching assistant, 1967-1971 New York University: postdoctoral research fellow, 1971-72
Permanent
University of Washington: assistant,associate, full, emeritus professor, 1972-present
Visiting
Stanford University, Department of Psychology: visiting professor, summers, 1972, 1979 National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Aging: visiting scholar, autumn, 1986 MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences: 1995-1996
Fellowships
University Fellow, Stanford University: 1967-70 NSF fellowship, New York University: 1971-72 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University: autumn, 1978, summers,1979, 1980
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow) American Psychological Society(Fellow) Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Psychonomic Society(Publications Board 1997-2001) Society for Computers in Psychology(President 1983-84) Society of Experimental Psychologists
Grant reviewing
NIMHBasic Behavioral Processes Study Section (1983-1987) NIMHCognition and Perception Study Section (2003-2007) Adhoc reviewer for numerous other granting agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere
Journal editorships
Editor: Memory & Cognition(1993-1997) Associate Editor, Cognitive Psychology(1975-1996; 1999-2006)
Journal editorial boards:
JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition(1977-1988; 2000-2002) JEP: General (1977-1990) Psychological Science (1999-2004) Psychological Review(2004-2011)
Books
Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1976). Human Memory:The Processing of Information.Hillsdale,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Loftus, G.R., & Loftus E.F. (1982). Essence ofStatistics. Monterey: Brooks-Cole. Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1983). Mind at Play:The Psychology of Video Games. New York:Basic Books. Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1987). Essence ofStatistics, 2nd Edition. New York: RandomHouse. Savageau, D. & Loftus, G.R. (1997). Places RatedAlmanac.New York: McMillan. Smith, E.E., Nolen-...
Articles and Chapters
Freund, R.D., Loftus, G.R., & Atkinson, R.C. (1969). Applications of multiprocess models for memory to continuous recognition tasks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 6, 576-594. (pdf) Klatzky, R.L., & Loftus, G.R. (1969). Recognition memory as influenced by number of reinforcements and type of test. Psychonomic Science, 16, 302-303. (pdf) Loftus, G.R., & Wickens, T.D. (1970). Effect of incentive on storage and retrieval processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 85, 141-147. (pdf) Rund...
A comprehensive profile of the life and career of Geoffrey Russell Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. Includes biographical data, education, employment, awards, publications, and consulting work.
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Geoffrey Loftus, Ph.D. Visual Perception, Relations Between Low-Level Visual & Higher-Order Cognitive Processing, Confidence & Accuracy in Recognition Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, Statistics & Methodology (particularly problems with null hypothesis significance testing), mathematical models of visual perception and memory, and Computer ...
Articles 1–20. Professor of Psychology, University of Washington - Cited by 19,359 - perception - memory.
Nov 6, 2017 · Geoffrey Loftus’s 45 year career with the UW psychology department will come to an end after this quarter. Within the department, he specialized in visual perception, relations between...
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Geoffrey R. Loftus. University of Washington. Department of Psychology, Box 351525. Guthrie Hall, Room 222. Seattle, WA 98195-1525. email: gloftus@uw.edu.
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Feb 22, 2005 · Geoffrey Loftus is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington who studies the limits of human vision and memory. He testified as an expert witness in a murder case involving a distant eyewitness identification and developed a formula to calculate the blurriness and distance of faces.
