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Amalgamations of memories: intrusion of information from one event into reports of another

โœ Scribed by Bem P. Allen; D. Stephen Lindsay

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
106 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-4080

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โœฆ Synopsis

Numerous researchers have reported that exposure to misleading postevent information (MPI) regarding details in a witnessed event can lead people to report false details from the MPI when asked to report the witnessed event. In such studies, the MPI is presented to participants in the context of information about the witnessed event. This experiment tests the hypothesis that postevent exposure to information that participants know is not about the witnessed event can, nonetheless, aect performance on tests of memory for that event. As predicted, when asked to report details of an event depicted in a slide show, participants tended to intrude details mentioned in a recent postevent narrative that described a dierent event.

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