Summary

Dr Lawrence Patihis, PhD is a psychological scientist who specializes in memory reliability, often in legal contexts. His doctoral advisor was Elizabeth Loftus, a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the highly ranked psychology department at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has published research in prestigious journals such as PNAS, Psychological Science, and Clinical Psychological Science. 

His research on memory and beliefs about memory . This research has made a few discoveries about how memory works: including , , and . His other branch of research has helped reveal the extent of , as well as the . He has also published on .

 

He teaches a module called Trauma, Memory, and Law, that discusses false memories, some legal case studies, memory reliability, and to what degree repressed memories should be admissible in legal cases. This is an option that forensic psychology students can choose in their final year. He has published a . With students in mind, he has also created a , which discusses how to distinguish science from pseudoscience, and testable theory from ideology.

Dr Patihis in available as an on the topic of memory reliability, and is the director of the laboratory.

Dr Patihis is also an , and the cofounder of .

Research outputs

2024

Patihis, L., Radcliffe, P. J.

13 Sep 2024, In: Memory. 32, 8, p. 1083-1099

Herrera, M. E., Patihis, L.

11 Sep 2024, In: Psychological Reports, 22p.

Allen, R. S., Brasfield, M., Bui, C., Crowther, M. R., McDonough, I., Patihis, L.

1 Feb 2024, In: The Gerontologist. 64, 2, 9p., gnad042

Otgaar, H., Patihis, L., Sauerland, M., Wang, B., Wang, J.

31 Jan 2024, In: Behavioral Sciences & the Law

2023

Houben, S. T. L., Loop, L., Patihis, L., Raymaekers, L., Sauerland, M., Vandervelt, D.

27 Nov 2023, In: Memory

Patihis, L.

21 Jun 2023, In: Topics in Cognitive Science, 8p.

Dodier, O., Garry, M., Howe, M. L., Loftus, E. F., Lynn, S. J., Mangiulli, I., McNally, R. J., Otgaar, H., Patihis, L.

1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 32, 1, p. 116-126, 11p.