Mediators and Moderators of Reinforced Self-Affirmation as a Method for Reducing the Memory Misinformation Effect [PDF]
The misinformation effect occurs when an eyewitness includes information in his or her account that is incongruent with the event he or she witnessed, and stems from being exposed to incorrect external sources.
Malwina Szpitalak, Romuald Polczyk
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Does presenting perpetrator and innocent suspect faces from different facial angles influence the susceptibility of eyewitness memory? An investigation into the misinformation effect and eyewitness misidentification [PDF]
IntroductionThis study investigated the effects of face angle congruency across stages of a misinformation paradigm on lineup discrimination accuracy.MethodsIn a between-subjects design, participants viewed a mock crime with the perpetrator’s face from ...
Kara Deering +3 more
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Self-delivered misinformation - Merging the choice blindness and misinformation effect paradigms. [PDF]
Choice blindness is the failure to detect a discrepancy between a choice and its outcome. The misinformation effect occurs when the recollection of an event changes because new, misleading information about the event is received.
Lotta Stille +2 more
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Vaccine-related misinformation and attitude toward COVID-19 vaccination in Japan [PDF]
BackgroundMisinformation about vaccines has been linked to vaccine hesitancy, but vaccination can still be accepted even when such distrustful narratives are endorsed.
Yuki Furuse +3 more
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Age differences in susceptibility to stroke-related health misinformation on social media: the role of prior experience and corrective feedback [PDF]
Background and objectiveThe rapid dissemination of complex health-related misinformation poses a critical threat to public health management and healthy lifestyles.
Hongkai Li, Xingyun Liu, Hanshu Zhang
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Considerable evidence has shown that repeating the same misinformation increases its influence (i.e., repetition effects). However, very little research has examined whether having multiple witnesses present misinformation relative to one witness (i.e ...
Rachel O’Donnell +3 more
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Susceptibility to long-term misinformation effect outside of the laboratory [PDF]
Objective: To test the effect of misinformation outside of the laboratory and to explore correlates of the effect, including arousal, cognitive ability, and neuroticism.
Miriam J. J. Lommen +2 more
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Misinformation effects in an online sample: results of an experimental study with a five day retention interval [PDF]
Traditional face-to-face laboratory studies have contributed greatly to our understanding of how misinformation effects develop. However, an area of emerging concern that has been relatively under-researched is the impact of misinformation following ...
Olivia Sievwright +4 more
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False Memories in Native and Foreign Languages
Human memory is prone to memory errors and distortion. Evidence from studies on cognitive functions in bilinguals indicates that they might be prone to different types of memory errors compared to monolinguals; however, the effect of language in false ...
Aleksandra Dolgoarshinnaia +1 more
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Should I Trust Social Media? How Media Credibility and Language Affect False Memory
This study examined the influence of credibility and .language in Internet-based media on false memory. A randomized factorial 2 (media credibility) × 2 (language) experimental design was conducted with 106 college students.
Dewi Maulina +4 more
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