Memory impairment and source misattribution in postevent misinformation experiments with short retention intervals
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 22 (1) , 40-54
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03202760
Abstract
The four experiments reported here provide evidence that (1) misleading postevent suggestions can impair memory for details in a witnessed event and (2) subjects sometimes remember sug-gested details as things seen in the event itself. All four experiments used recall tests in which subjects were warned of the possibility that the postevent information included misleading sug-gestions and were instructed to report both what they witnessed in the event and what was men-tioned in the postevent narrative. Recall of event details was poorer on misled items than on control items, and subjects sometimes misidentified the sources of their recollections. Our re-sults suggest that these findings are not due to guessing or response biases, but rather reflect genuine memory impairment and source monitoring confusions.Keywords
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