Errors in autobiographical memory

Hyman, Ira E.; Loftus, Elizabeth F.

doi:10.1016/s0272-7358(98)00041-5

Cited by 139 publications

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“…It is possible that this was partly explained by ''time-slice errors'' (Hyman and Loftus 1998), specifically a ''telescope effect'' (events are recalled to have occurred closer in time than was actually the case). This may have been stronger at baseline than at follow-up because the time period studied at follow-up was delimited by the initial baseline/feedback events, which may have guided recall of modifications.…”

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Feedback of workplace data to individual workers, workgroups or supervisors as a way to stimulate working environment activity: a cluster randomized controlled study

Eklöf

Hagberg

Toomingas

et al. 2004

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Feedback and discussion of ergonomic and psychosocial working-environment data during one short session with individual, groups or supervisors of white-collar computer workers may have a positive effect on how many people in a workgroup modify (or have modifications done regarding) workplace design and working technique. Feedback to supervisors may have an effect on the average number of psychosocial modification types per individual in a workgroup. Feedback to group supervisors appeared to be the most cost-effective variant.

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Section: Internal Validitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Feedback of workplace data to individual workers, workgroups or supervisors as a way to stimulate working environment activity: a cluster randomized controlled study

Eklöf

Hagberg

Toomingas

et al. 2004

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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“…We reasoned that high levels of cognitive failures and fantasy proneness might be associated with reporting memories of non-existent footage of the Fortuyn killing. Pseudomemories can only develop when source-monitoring errors take place (Hyman & Loftus, 1998). Because highly emotional public events such as the assassination of Fortuyn, are given much media attention, many people create images of such events.…”

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Assassination of a controversial politician: remembering details from another non‐existent film

Jelícic

Smeets

Peters

et al. 2006

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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We asked undergraduate students (N ¼ 83) if they had seen non-existent video footage of the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, and whether they could remember details of this footage. Sixty-three percent of the participants indicated they had seen the footage, and 23% were able to provide details of this footage. Participants with 'memories' of the non-existent footage had higher fantasy proneness scores than those who could not remember this footage. Results underscore the malleability of our autobiographical memory.

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“…Using plausible suggested events likely fostered participants' belief that the event occurred, which may be a precursor for forming a false memory (Hyman & Loftus, 1998). Our use of the CI rather than a simple free-recall task may also have fostered reporting of the suggested event.…”

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confidence: 97%

Differentiating accounts of actual, suggested and fabricated childhood events using the judgment of memory characteristics questionnaire

Short¹,

Bodner²

2010

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Statement analysis procedures are used in forensic settings to classify reported events as experienced or nonexperienced. These procedures are typically validated using accounts of actual events and intentionally fabricated events. However, people can also unintentionally develop false memories. To examine whether inclusion of accounts of suggested events affects classification accuracy, we validated the judgment of memory characteristics questionnaire (JMCQ) statement analysis procedure using all three statement types. Participants attempted to recall two actual events and one suggested event from their childhood over two cognitive interviews, then intentionally fabricated an account of another childhood event. Fourteen of the 34 participants (41%) reported having experienced the suggested event. Independent raters then used the JMCQ to analyse and classify each type of statement from this participant subset. Inclusion of accounts of suggested events did not reduce classification accuracy. Raters tended to classify accounts of both fabricated and suggested events as non-experienced.

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Errors in autobiographical memory

Cited by 139 publications

References 33 publications

Feedback of workplace data to individual workers, workgroups or supervisors as a way to stimulate working environment activity: a cluster randomized controlled study

Feedback of workplace data to individual workers, workgroups or supervisors as a way to stimulate working environment activity: a cluster randomized controlled study

Assassination of a controversial politician: remembering details from another non‐existent film

Differentiating accounts of actual, suggested and fabricated childhood events using the judgment of memory characteristics questionnaire

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