scholarly journals Crashing Memory 2.0: False Memories in Adults for an Upsetting Childhood Event

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Patihis ◽  
Elizabeth F. Loftus

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Porter ◽  
Angela R. Birt ◽  
John C. Yuille ◽  
Darrin R. Lehman

In a recent study, more than half of the participants were led to create a partial or complete false memory for an emotional childhood event (e.g., serious animal attack). Using a subsample from that study, we examined the hypothesis that memory distortion is related to characteristics of interviewers and rememberers. The relations between susceptibility to memory distortion and (a) dissociation (Dissociative Experiences Scale) and (b) personality traits (NEO-Five Factor Inventory) were investigated. Results indicated that participants who exhibited memory distortion scored significantly higher on the dissociative scale than their counterparts who did not exhibit memory distortion. Further, susceptibility to memory distortion was associated with higher extraversion scores in interviewers and lower extraversion scores in participants. This pattern of findings suggests that false memories may derive from a social negotiation between particular interviewers and rememberers.



Author(s):  
Matthew P. Gerrie ◽  
Maryanne Garry

When people see movies with some parts missing, they falsely recognize many of the missing parts later. In two experiments, we examined the effect of warnings on people’s false memories for these parts. In Experiment 1, warning subjects about false recognition before the movie (forewarnings) reduced false recognition, but warning them after the movie (postwarnings) reduced false recognition to a lesser extent. In Experiment 2, the effect of the warnings depended on the nature of the missing parts. Forewarnings were more effective than postwarnings in reducing false recognition of missing noncrucial parts, but forewarnings and postwarnings were similarly effective in reducing false recognition of crucial missing parts. We use the source monitoring framework to explain our results.



1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Corydon Hammond ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludmila D. Nunes ◽  
Leonel Garcia-Marques ◽  
Mario B. Ferreira
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2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael A. Wynne ◽  
Georgina A. Tolan ◽  
Gerald Tehan




2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha N. Cervantes ◽  
David A. Gallo


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