Creating false memories of infancy with hypnotic and non-hypnotic procedures
✍ Scribed by Nicholas P. Spanos; Cheryl A. Burgess; Melissa F. Burgess; Catherine Samuels; William O. Blois
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
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✦ Synopsis
This study was designed to test the conditions under while false memory reports are likely to be elicited from hypnotic and non-hypnotic participants. Low, medium and high hypnotizables were administered either a hypnotic or non-hypnotic suggestion for regression to the day after birth. False memories of infancy were generated in 68 of 78 age-regressed participants, nearly half of whom reported strong beliefs in the reality of their recovered `memories'. Non-hypnotic participants were slightly but signi®cantly more likely to report infancy experiences than were hypnotic participants. However, hypnotizability did not have a signi®cant eect on the classi®cation of these experiences as memories or as fantasies. Implications for the experimental and clinical contexts are discussed.