Using source cues and familiarity cues to resist imagination inflation

Sharman, Stefanie J.; Garry, Maryanne; Hunt, Maree

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.04.002

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“…Adults feel more confident that they have experienced fictional events if these events have been imagined (Garry & Polaschek, 2000). These IMAGINING WHAT MIGHT 15 effects result from increased ease of processing as imagined events become more familiar and source confusion (Sharman, Garry, & Hunt, 2005). It is plausible that children, whose source monitoring is still developing (see e.g.…”

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Imagining what might be: Why children underestimate uncertainty

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McColgan

Robinson

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Children's well-documented tendency to behave as if they know more than they do about uncertain events is reduced under two conditions: When the outcome of a chance event has yet to be determined, and when one unknown outcome has occurred but is difficult to imagine. In Experiment 1, in line with published findings, 5-and 6-year-olds (N = 69) preferred to guess the unknown location of a known object when the object was in place rather than before its location had been determined. There was no such preference when the object's identity was unknown. In Experiment 2, 29 5-and 6-year-olds were more likely correctly to mark both possible locations when an already hidden object's identity was unknown rather than known. We conclude that children's vivid imaginations can lead them to under-estimate uncertainty, in a similar way to imagination inflation or fluency effects in adults.

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Imagining what might be: Why children underestimate uncertainty

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McColgan

Robinson

et al. 2011

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…Fifteen years of research has demonstrated that briefly exposing people to false childhood events makes them more confident that these events were real experiences (e.g. Garry, Manning, Loftus, & Sherman, ; Sharman, Garry & Hunt, ). For example, in one study, Garry et al .…”

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Do Cognitive Interview Instructions Contribute to False Beliefs and Memories?

Sharman

Powell

2012

Journal Invest Psychology

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To examine whether exposing people to false events using instructions taken from the cognitive interview creates false beliefs and false memories, we conducted an experiment where participants took part in two sessions. First, they rated how confident they were that they had experienced certain childhood events and their memories of those events; they also rated how plausible they thought the events were. Second, 2 weeks later, participants were exposed to two of three false target events: one high, one moderate, and one low plausibility. For the first event, participants were instructed to either report everything or mentally reinstate the event context. For the second event, participants received both instructions. The third event was the control event about which participants received no instructions. Finally, participants rated their confidence and memories the second time. The results showed that the cognitive interview instructions had little to no effect on the development of false beliefs and false memories. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…However, in the past 10 years over 50 additional studies have included a measure of perspective. For example, visual perspective has been examined in studies of emotion (Berntsen & Rubin, 2006; D'Argembeau, Comblain, & Van Der Linden, 2003; Gollnisch & Averill, 1993; Robinson & Swanson, 1993; Strongman & Kemp, 1991; Talarico, LaBar, & Rubin, 2004), flashbulb memories (Bohn & Berntsen, 2007; Talarico & Rubin, 2003, 2007), gender differences (Huebner & Fredrickson, 1999), cultural differences (Cohen & Gunz, 2002), remember/know judgments of childhood memories (Crawley & French, 2005), true and false memories (Heaps & Nash, 2001), imagination inflation (Libby, 2003; Sharman, Garry, & Hunt, 2005), projecting one’s self into the past and future (D'Argembeau & Van der Linden, 2004) and the effect of aging and traumatic brain injury on autobiographical memory retrieval (Piolino et al, 2006; Piolino et al, 2007). …”

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I can see it both ways: First- and third-person visual perspectives at retrieval

Rice

Rubin

2009

Consciousness and Cognition

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The number of studies examining visual perspective during retrieval has recently grown. However, the way in which perspective has been conceptualized differs across studies. Some studies have suggested perspective is experienced as either a first-person or a third-person perspective, whereas others have suggested both perspectives can be experienced during a single retrieval attempt. This aspect of perspective was examined across three studies, which used different measurement techniques commonly used in studies of perspective. Results suggest that individuals can experience more than one perspective when recalling events. Furthermore, the experience of the two perspectives correlated differentially with ratings of vividness, suggesting that the two perspectives should not be considered in opposition of one another. We also found evidence of a gender effect in the experience of perspective, with females experiencing third-person perspectives more often than males. Future studies should allow for the experience of more than one perspective during retrieval.

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Using source cues and familiarity cues to resist imagination inflation

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Imagining what might be: Why children underestimate uncertainty

Imagining what might be: Why children underestimate uncertainty

Do Cognitive Interview Instructions Contribute to False Beliefs and Memories?

I can see it both ways: First- and third-person visual perspectives at retrieval

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