In several studies over the past ten years, we have reported that false memories are significantly less likely to be suggestively planted for events that are relatively implausible. Recently, reported no effect of event plausibility on rates of planting false childhood memories; that is, imaginatio
Imagination and memory: Does imagining implausible events lead to false autobiographical memories?
✍ Scribed by Kathy Pezdek; Iris Blandon-Gitlin; Pamela Gabbay
- Book ID
- 111512750
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
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