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This document is a page from a court transcript filed on August 10, 2022, detailing the testimony of a witness named Loftus. Loftus describes a widely-cited 1978 study on the malleability of memory, explaining how the use of different verbs ('smashed' versus 'hit') when questioning witnesses about a simulated car accident altered their estimation of speed and even caused them to falsely remember details like broken glass.