Professor Loftus and Dr. Ceci—along with many other researchers who’d become increasingly interested in the “misinformation effect”—declared a bona fide war within the field of psychology, which split into two opposing sides. One side urged caution, preferring the use of interview techniques that prevented the risk of creating false memories—questions that were open rather than suggestive. The other argued that this approach tended to favor the abusers at the expense of the victims.
