Constructing rich false memories of committing crime
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- DOI: 10.1177/0956797614562862
Constructing rich false memories of committing crime
Erratum in
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Corrigendum: Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime.Psychol Sci. 2018 Apr;29(4):673-674. doi: 10.1177/0956797618762341. Epub 2018 Mar 12. Psychol Sci. 2018. PMID: 29529385 No abstract available.
Abstract
Memory researchers long have speculated that certain tactics may lead people to recall crimes that never occurred, and thus could potentially lead to false confessions. This is the first study to provide evidence suggesting that full episodic false memories of committing crime can be generated in a controlled experimental setting. With suggestive memory-retrieval techniques, participants were induced to generate criminal and noncriminal emotional false memories, and we compared these false memories with true memories of emotional events. After three interviews, 70% of participants were classified as having false memories of committing a crime (theft, assault, or assault with a weapon) that led to police contact in early adolescence and volunteered a detailed false account. These reported false memories of crime were similar to false memories of noncriminal events and to true memory accounts, having the same kinds of complex descriptive and multisensory components. It appears that in the context of a highly suggestive interview, people can quite readily generate rich false memories of committing crime.
Comment in
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Deconstructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime: Commentary on Shaw and Porter (2015).Psychol Sci. 2018 Mar;29(3):471-476. doi: 10.1177/0956797617703667. Epub 2018 Jan 9. Psychol Sci. 2018. PMID: 29315022 No abstract available.
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How Can Researchers Tell Whether Someone Has a False Memory? Coding Strategies in Autobiographical False-Memory Research: A Reply to Wade, Garry, and Pezdek (2018).Psychol Sci. 2018 Mar;29(3):477-480. doi: 10.1177/0956797618759552. Epub 2018 Feb 16. Psychol Sci. 2018. PMID: 29451430 No abstract available.
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