Geoffrey Loftus

Geoffrey Loftus (born 1945) is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington who specializes in memory and attention, with more recent research on face perception and hindsight bias. He took a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology at Brown University in 1967 and a doctorate in experimental psychology at Stanford University in 1971, where his advisor was Richard C. Atkinson. He then held a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of George Sperling and joined the Washington faculty shortly afterward. He has applied his work on perception and memory to legal questions, testifying as an expert witness in roughly 495 civil and criminal cases, and his work on seeing a person from a distance has been cited by the Innocence Project. He retired from full-time professorship in 2017 to concentrate on his legal work.