1944 - Today
Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies. Loftus's research includes the effects of phrasing on the perceptions of automobile crashes, the "lost in the mall" technique and the manipulation of food preferences through the use of false memories. In the Jane Doe case that began in 1997, Loftus and Melvin J. Guyer revealed serious concerns about the background and validity of the initial research. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Loftus has received more than 812,986 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Elizabeth Loftus is the 166th most popular psychologist (down from 156th in 2019), the 3,902nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,650th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Psychologist.
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Among psychologists, Elizabeth Loftus ranks 166 out of 183. Before her are Alexander Bain, Michael Gazzaniga, Jean Laplanche, Emma Eckstein, Arthur Janov, and Giacomo Rizzolatti. After her are Georgi Lozanov, Dimitri Uznadze, Edvard Moser, Brenda Milner, John C. Lilly, and Boris Cyrulnik.
1818 - 1903
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 160
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 161
1924 - 2012
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 162
1865 - 1924
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 163
1924 - 2017
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 164
1937 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 165
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 166
1926 - 2012
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 167
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 168
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 169
1918 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 170
1915 - 2001
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 171
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 172
Among people born in 1944, Elizabeth Loftus ranks 267. Before her are Rick Barry, Sigiswald Kuijken, David Trimble, Lena Nyman, Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, and Peter Bieri. After her are Thom Mayne, Lars Norén, Jan-Carl Raspe, Élisabeth Badinter, Whitfield Diffie, and Mitchell Feigenbaum.
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 261
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 262
1944 - 2022
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 263
1944 - 2011
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 264
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 265
1944 - 2023
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 266
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 267
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 268
1944 - 2021
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 269
1944 - 1977
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 270
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 271
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 272
1944 - 2019
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 273
Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Loftus ranks 3,902 out of 18,182. Before her are Robert Darnton (1939), Marion Davies (1897), Alice Brady (1892), Aaliyah (1979), Taj Mahal (1942), and Walter Hunt (1796). After her are Robert Rodriguez (1968), Ralph Linton (1893), Betty Mahmoody (1945), Wallace Beery (1885), John King Fairbank (1907), and Richard Conte (1910).
1939 - Present
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 3,896
1897 - 1961
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 3,897
1892 - 1939
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 3,898
1979 - 2001
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 3,899
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 3,900
1796 - 1859
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 3,901
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,902
1968 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,903
1893 - 1953
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,904
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,905
1885 - 1949
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,906
1907 - 1991
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,907
1910 - 1975
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 3,908
Among psychologists born in United States, Elizabeth Loftus ranks 60. Before her are Julian Rotter (1916), Brian Weiss (1944), Gustave Gilbert (1911), James Hillman (1926), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), and Arthur Janov (1924). After her are John C. Lilly (1915), Lewis Terman (1877), Michael Tomasello (1950), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), and Karl Lashley (1890).
1916 - 2014
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 54
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 55
1911 - 1977
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 56
1926 - 2011
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 57
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 58
1924 - 2017
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 59
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 60
1915 - 2001
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 61
1877 - 1956
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 62
1950 - Present
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 63
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 64
1887 - 1955
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 65
1890 - 1958
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 66