“…Participants who read inconsistent information (e.g., reading about a yield sign after seeing a stop sign) were more likely to recall misinformation (the yield sign) in the test phase than did those who read consistent information (e.g., reading about a stop sign after seeing a stop sign), showing that information encoded after the event affected participants' memories (an example of retroactive interference). The misinformation effect has been found across age groups (Loftus, Levidow, & Duensing, ; Roebers & Schneider, ), across species in a conditional discrimination task that involved post‐choice misinformation (Martin & Zentall, ), and when directly (such as face‐to‐face interaction; e.g., Paterson & Kemp, ) and indirectly (such as reading; e.g., Loftus et al, ) encountering sources of misinformation (for a comparison of direct and indirect interaction, see Blank et al, ).…”