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Social influences on reality-monitoring decisions.

H G Hoffman1, P A Granhag, S T Kwong See

  • 1Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-2142, USA. hunter@hitL.washington.edu

Memory & Cognition
|June 16, 2001
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Social influence impacts memory accuracy. Even when confident, people conform to incorrect confederate responses about new items, but this conformity lessens if the confederate

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Reality monitoring involves distinguishing perceived from imagined events.
  • Social influence can affect memory and decision-making processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how social influence affects reality-monitoring decisions for new items.
  • To examine the conditions under which social conformity impacts memory accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • A modified Asch (1951) conformity paradigm was employed.
  • Participants judged items as perceived, imagined, or new, with confederate responses sometimes provided before their judgment.
  • Confederate credibility was manipulated in some experiments.

Main Results:

  • Erroneous confederate responses significantly influenced participants' reality-monitoring decisions for new items.

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  • Reducing confederate credibility decreased social conformity.
  • Influence persisted even after a 20-minute delay, despite high baseline accuracy.

    • Conclusions:

    • Social influence exerts a powerful effect on reality-monitoring accuracy and confidence.
    • Memory judgments are susceptible to social conformity, even for novel information.
    • Understanding social influence is crucial for comprehending memory biases.