Geoffrey Loftus
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Geoffrey R. Loftus | |
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| Born | December 24, 1945 (age 80) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, Brown University |
| Known for | Studies of human perception, memory, legal applications of research in cognition, visual perception, relations between low-level visual and higher-order cognitive processing, and accuracy in recognition memory |
| Spouses | Susan Loftus
(m. 1992; div. 2005)Willa Rose (m. 2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard C. Atkinson |
| Other academic advisors | George Sperling |
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. Loftus received a B.A. in experimental psychology from Brown University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University in 1971, where his advisor was Richard C. Atkinson. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of George Sperling in 1972, and he joined the faculty of the University of Washington shortly thereafter, where he has remained since. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1995–1996 academic year. Geoff Loftus was married to fellow psychologist Elizabeth Loftus from 1968 to 1991. They are now divorced, but remain close colleagues. Geoff Loftus retired from full-time professorship in July, 2017, primarily to focus on his legal work. He still regularly testifies as an expert witness.
