Dr Lawrence Patihis
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
2025
Radcliffe, P. J., Patihis, L.
11 May 2025, In: Memory
Research output: Article
Salkeld, A., Patihis, L.
1 Mar 2025, In: Memory. 33, 3, p. 1-18, 18p.
Research output: Article
2024
Radcliffe, P. J., Patihis, L.
13 Sep 2024, In: Memory. 32, 8, p. 1083-1099
Research output: Article
Patihis, L., Herrera, M. E.
11 Sep 2024, In: Psychological Reports, 22p.
Research output: Article
Wang, J., Wang, B., Otgaar, H., Patihis, L., Sauerland, M.
1 Mar 2024, In: Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 42, 2, p. 79-95
Research output: Article
Brasfield, M., Bui, C., Patihis, L., Crowther, M. R., Allen, R. S., McDonough, I.
1 Feb 2024, In: The Gerontologist. 64, 2, 9p., gnad042
Research output: Article
Houben, S. T. L., Raymaekers, L., Loop, L., Vandervelt, D., Patihis, L., Sauerland, M.
2 Jan 2024, In: Memory. 32, 1, p. 90-99
Research output: Article
2023
Patihis, L.
21 Jun 2023, In: Topics in Cognitive Science, 8p.
Research output: Article
Otgaar, H., Dodier, O., Garry, M., Howe, M. L., Loftus, E. F., Lynn, S. J., Mangiulli, I., McNally, R. J., Patihis, L.
1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 32, 1, p. 116-126, 11p.
Research output: Article
Patihis, L., Otgaar, H., Lynn, S. J., Loftus, E., McNally, R. J.
1 Jan 2023,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)