The effects of repeated idea elaboration on unconscious plagiarism |
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Authors: | Louisa -Jayne Stark Timothy J Perfect |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, 77843-4235 College Station, TX |
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Abstract: | Unconscious plagiarism occurs in a recall task when someone presents someone else’s idea as his or her own. Recent research
has shown that the likelihood of such an error is inflated if the idea is improved during the retention interval, but not
if it is imagined. Here, we explore the effects of repeating the elaboration phase during the retention interval. Participants
in a group first generated alternate uses to common objects before elaborating the ideas either by imagining them or by improving
them. This elaboration phase occurred once, twice, or not at all. Later, they attempted to recall their original ideas and
generate new ideas. Repeated imagery did not inflate unconscious plagiarism on either task. In contrast, repeating the improvement
phase increased plagiarism to dramatically high levels in the recall task. The latter effect might be particularly pertinent
to real-world cases of plagiarism in which the ideas under dispute have been the subject of creative development over many
occasions. |
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