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
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
Childhood Event

Negotiating False Memories: Interviewer and Rememberer Characteristics Relate to Memory Distortion

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Porter ◽  
Angela R. Birt ◽  
John C. Yuille ◽  
Darrin R. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
False Memory ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Memory Distortion ◽  
Dissociative Experiences Scale ◽  
Dissociative Experiences ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Childhood Event ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
Animal Attack

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.

Warnings Reduce False Memories for Missing Aspects of Events

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P. Gerrie ◽  
Maryanne Garry
Keyword(s):  
False Recognition ◽  
Source Monitoring ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Monitoring Framework

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.

False Memories, Misrepresentations and Ritual Abuse

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Corydon Hammond ◽  
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
Ritual Abuse

Divergent False Memories: Inferential Costs of the Centrality Effect

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludmila D. Nunes ◽  
Leonel Garcia-Marques ◽  
Mario B. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
False Memories

The Effect of Task Difficulty and Hybrid Lists on Short-Term False Memories

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael A. Wynne ◽  
Georgina A. Tolan ◽  
Gerald Tehan
Keyword(s):  
Task Difficulty ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Short Term

False Memories for Pictures: Effects of Warnings and Directed Forgetting Instructions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Ensor ◽  
Kerri A. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
Directed Forgetting

Field Dependence Increases False Memories by Reducing Monitoring

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha N. Cervantes ◽  
David A. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
False Memories
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