The Counterintuitive Relationship between Conceptual and Perceptual Similarities and Eyewitness Suggestibility

Levy-Gigi, Einat; Vakil, Eli

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“…They then viewed the first crime scenario for five seconds. This exposure duration is consistent with exposure durations used in previous studies using similar methodologies (e.g., Levy-Gigi & Vakil, 2014;Prull & Yockelson, 2013;Wang & Pomplun, 2012). Following this, participants completed a short distraction task (mathematical problem) for 5 min.…”

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The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports among migrants

Anakwah

Horselenberg

Hope

et al. 2020

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose. When people migrate to new cultures, they adapt to their new culture while at the same time retaining the norms of their original culture. The phenomenon whereby migrants adapt to the cultural norms of a host culture has been referred to as acculturation. Using a mock witness paradigm, we examined the acculturation effect in the eyewitness memory reports of sub-Saharan African migrants in Western Europe. Methods. We sampled sub-Saharan African migrants in Western Europe, as well as sub-Saharan Africans living in Africa as a control group (total N = 107). The mock witnesses were shown stimuli scenes of crimes in African and Western European settings and provided free and cued recall reports about what they had seen. Results. Central details were reported more than contextual details by both groups of sub-Saharan Africans. Relative to the control group of sub-Saharan Africans living in Africa, sub-Saharan African migrants in Western Europe provided more correct central details in free recall. The longer migrants had resided in Western Europe, the less collectivistic they become. Migrants also provided more elaborate reports the longer their duration of residence in Western Europe. Conclusion. The findings of the current research suggest the new cultural environment of migrants impact their cultural norms, which may have implications for their eyewitness memory reports. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports among migrants

Anakwah

Horselenberg

Hope

et al. 2020

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Considering the native land of witnesses

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Susceptibility to retroactive interference: The effect of context as a function of age and cognition

Shapiro

Levy-Gigi

2015

Memory

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Previous studies have shown that contextual cues improve memory performance and reduce interference in younger adults. However, it is not clear whether middle-aged and older adults can also benefit from contextual cues, or if this ability diminishes with ageing and cognitive decline. In order to test this question, we tested 69 middle-aged adults (aged 30-50 years) and 65 older adults (aged 65-85). Participants completed a retroactive interference paradigm with or without contextual cues. Cognitive functioning of older adults was assessed using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which is a sensitive and highly validated tool to detect cognitive decline in older age. The results showed that while middle-aged adults were able to benefit from context to improve recognition and reduce interference, older adults were not able to benefit from it. However, when we compared older adults with lower (<26) and higher (≥26) scores on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, we found that older adults with high cognitive functioning could benefit from context advantage at retrieval to improve recognition compared to those with lower cognitive functioning. Yet, similar to older adults with lower cognitive functioning, they could not benefit from context advantage at encoding and hence were still susceptible to interference.

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The Counterintuitive Relationship between Conceptual and Perceptual Similarities and Eyewitness Suggestibility

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports among migrants

The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports among migrants

Considering the native land of witnesses

Susceptibility to retroactive interference: The effect of context as a function of age and cognition

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