scholarly journals Reevaluating the potency of the memory conformity effect

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen E. Bodner ◽  
Elisabeth Musch ◽  
Tanjeem Azad

Author(s):  
Magdalena Kękuś ◽  
Romuald Polczyk ◽  
Hiroshi Ito ◽  
Kazuo Mori ◽  
Krystian Barzykowski


2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.B. Wright ◽  
R.H.D. Busnello ◽  
L.G. Buratto ◽  
L.M. Stein


Author(s):  
Fiona Gabbert ◽  
Rebecca Wheeler

Despite natural differences in the way individuals initially remember the same encoded event, research shows that when people discuss their memories they can influence each other such that their subsequent individual memory reports become similar. This phenomenon is referred to as “memory conformity.” It can occur because people accept, and later report, information that is suggested to them in the course of the discussion. In the interest of both theoretical and applied implications, researchers have investigated factors that can increase and decrease the memory conformity effect. This chapter presents methodological approaches to investigating memory conformity, typical research findings, and current theoretical explanations that help account for the phenomenon.



1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Marcia Guttentag ◽  
Gloria Wheeler

Group effects on individual inferences were studied to determine whether risky shifts in individual judgments would follow group decisions. Ss were asked to make likelihood ratio estimations in a non-cumulative condition and cumulative odds estimates in another condition. Ss were either in individual followed by group conditions or the reverse. Both natural and ad hoc 5-person groups were used. The normative model provided by Bayes' theorem was used to examine groups with effects on individual judgments. Natural and ad hoc groups did not differ. Noncumulative likelihood-ratio groups were veridical compared with the normative model. Although cumulative odds group were conservative in their judgments, no systematic shifts in a risky or conservative direction were found for either task. The group had an anchoring or conformity effect on later judgments of individuals, but this effect was not in the direction of veridicality.



Psico-USF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-163
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Faucz Pereira e Silva ◽  
Antonio Jaeger

Abstract The memory reports of a given individual may be altered by preceding memory reports of another individual, a phenomenon termed memory conformity. To investigate this phenomenon, 58 undergraduate students were separated in two groups which watched one of two slightly different movies of a crime scene (one included an accomplice). Subsequently, pairs containing one participant from each group discussed the movie, and then participants responded individually whether there was an accomplice in the scene. The frequency of false reports and their confidence for the presence/absence of the accomplice were analyzed. Only false reports of seeing an accomplice were produced (by 31% of those who saw no accomplice), and confidence were as high for these responses as for correct “no-accomplice” responses. The data is consistent with prior findings, and show that confidence on false reports can be high when involving “insertion” of elements to witnessed events.



2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 756-763
Author(s):  
Masahiro Shiomi ◽  
Norihiro Hagita


2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. W. Varnum


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Y. Hewitt ◽  
Robert Kane ◽  
Maryanne Garry
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2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Jaeger ◽  
Paula Lauris ◽  
Diana Selmeczy ◽  
Ian G. Dobbins


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