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Misled subjects may know more than their performance implies.

M S Zaragoza1, J W Koshmider

  • 1Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Ohio 44242.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|March 1, 1989
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Subjects exposed to misleading information may confidently report it, even if they don't believe they remember seeing it. This memory research shows source memory remains intact despite postevent misinformation.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Misleading postevent information often leads to confident reporting of inaccuracies.
  • Previous research focused on reporting misinformation, not belief in memory.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if exposure to misleading information creates a false memory of seeing it.
  • To determine if misinformation affects source memory accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments involved participants viewing an event, then receiving misleading or neutral postevent information.
  • Memory for original details and the source of information was tested immediately and after a 1-day delay.

Main Results:

  • Exposure to misinformation did not lead participants to believe they remembered seeing it.

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  • Participants' ability to accurately identify the source of originally witnessed details was not reduced.
  • These findings were consistent across immediate and delayed testing.

    • Conclusions:

    • Subjects may report misinformation without genuinely remembering its source.
    • Cognitive processes underlying memory reporting may differ from memory recall accuracy.