“…An example of a negative DRM list was as follows: tears, sorrow, laugh, whine, baby, scream, roar, whining, wet, weep, which referred to the critical lure ‘cry’. These DRM lists have been used in previous research and are effective in generating spontaneous false memories (Otgaar et al ., 2016). The DRM recognition task contained 78 words including 40 correct items (e.g., butter, tears), 10 critical lures, 10 non‐presented related items (e.g., deceased, syrup), and 18 non‐presented unrelated items (e.g., rock, bus).…”