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This document is a page from a court transcript filed on August 10, 2022, detailing the direct examination of a witness named Loftus. Loftus, likely an expert on memory, explains how labeling ambiguous objects or events can significantly alter a person's subsequent recollection. The testimony uses examples such as remembering an object as either 'eyeglasses' or 'dumbbells' and an event as an 'incident' versus a 'fight' to illustrate how labels shape memory construction.
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| Name | Role | Context |
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| Loftus | Witness |
Mentioned in the header as the subject of a direct examination ("Loftus - direct") and is the speaker for all answers...
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| SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. | Company |
Listed at the bottom of the document as the court reporting agency.
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The document is a transcript of a formal question-and-answer session, specifically a direct examination in a legal proceeding, between a questioner and the witness, Loftus.
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"If it got labeled as eyeglasses, people remembered it as more like eyeglasses. If it got labeled as dumbbells, people later remembered it as looking more like dumbbells. That's just an example of how you can label something ambiguous and it will affect people's memory for what they saw."Source
— Loftus
(Explaining how applying a label to an ambiguous object alters a person's memory of that object.)
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"In one of our older studies, we found that labeling something as an incident, which is really fairly neutral, has a different affect than when you label the thing that happened as a fight. People are more likely to construct an image of a fight, probably because of that label."Source
— Loftus
(Providing an example of how labeling an event with words that have different emotional connotations can change how the event is remembered.)
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