The Loftus and Palmer Study on the Value of Speech

The Loftus and Palmer study is one of the most interesting experiments ever conducted in psychology. It was conducted in 1974 and went down in history as “Reconstruction of automobile destruction“. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is quite a figure, both in the United States and abroad. She worked at the University of Washington until that educational center refused to publish one of her investigations. It was the same one for which she would later become known: “Who abused Jane Doe?” In it, she developed the thesis for which she had found empirical support in the Loftus and Palmer experiment. People have…