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Just because a witness is confident and emotional and detailed doesn’t mean that this thing they are describing really happened.
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A witness’s confidence, strong emotion, and detailed account can make a story seem convincing, but those qualities do not prove that the described event actually happened. The quote urges readers to separate how believable someone sounds from whether the facts are true.
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- University of California interview with Elizabeth Loftus
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