Dr Lawrence Patihis

Dr Lawrence Patihis

Dr Lawrence Patihis, PhD, is a British-American psychology academic at the University of Portsmouth. He has served as an memory reliability expert witness on legal cases in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has researched highly superior autobiographical memory, false memories, motivated forgetting, memories of emotion, trauma and dissociation, and beliefs about repressed memories. He has co-authored papers with other influential researchers and writers such as Elizabeth Loftus (his former doctoral dissertation chair), Richard McNally, Scott Lilienfeld, Mark Pendergrast, and Henry Otgaar. He has published in prestigious journals such as The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Clinical Psychological Science, and Perspectives in Psychological Science.