New evidence on the suggestibility of memory: the role of retrieval-induced forgetting in misinformation effects |
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Authors: | Saunders Jo MacLeod Malcolm D |
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Institution: | Social and Applied Cognition Lab, School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. |
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Abstract: | Extending recent work that has demonstrated that the act of remembering can result in the inhibition of related items in memory, the present research examined whether retrieval-induced forgetting could provide a mechanism for explaining misinformation effects. Specifically, the authors found in their first study that the inhibition of critical items rendered the recollection of postevent information more likely in a subsequent test of memory. The authors established in their second study that when guided retrieval practice and final recall tests were separated by 24 hr, retrieval-induced forgetting failed to emerge and misinformation effects were absent. In contrast, a delay of 24 hr between initial encoding and guided retrieval practice produced not only retrieval-induced forgetting but also misinformation effects. |
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