The Influence of Social (Mis)Information on Memory for Behavior in an Employment Interview |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland;2. USAF Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland;3. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland;4. Shock Trauma Anesthesiology Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Abstract: | We examined the impact of misinformation on memory for behavioral information in a social decision making context. In the initial study, 70 subjects viewed an 18-minute simulated employment interview, evaluated the interviewee, and then provided group ratings using their own evaluations and two other evaluations containing misinformation (misled group) or no misinformation (control group). The results of this study revealed that misled subjects were quite accepting of the misinformation, and were highly confident that the misinformation was true. In a supplemental experimental condition, a separate group of 23 subjects was given the same misinformation as the misled group. However, this group was alerted to the fact that they had received some misinformation, prior to completing a recognition memory test. This misled-informed group exhibited the same degree of accuracy as the control group, suggesting that the misinformation effects observed for the original misled group were due to social influence, rather than memory interference or source-attribution errors. |
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