Inoculating against eyewitness suggestibility via interpolated verbatim vs. gist testing |
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Authors: | Ainat Pansky Einat Tenenboim |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel. pansky@research.haifa.ac.il |
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Abstract: | In real-life situations, eyewitnesses often have control over the level of generality in which they choose to report event
information. In the present study, we adopted an early-intervention approach to investigate to what extent eyewitness memory
may be inoculated against suggestibility, following two different levels of interpolated reporting: verbatim and gist. After
viewing a target event, participants responded to interpolated questions that required reporting of target details at either
the verbatim or the gist level. After 48 hr, both groups of participants were misled about half of the target details and
were finally tested for verbatim memory of all the details. The findings were consistent with our predictions: Whereas verbatim
testing was successful in completely inoculating against suggestibility, gist testing did not reduce it whatsoever. These
findings are particularly interesting in light of the comparable testing effects found for these two modes of interpolated
testing. |
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