Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Memory experts' beliefs about repressed memory.

Lawrence Patihis1, Lavina Y Ho2, Elizabeth F Loftus3

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA.

Memory (Hove, England)
|October 9, 2018
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Interpreting fMRI Studies in Populations with Cerebrovascular Risk: The Use of a Subject-Specific Hemodynamic Response Function.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)·2025
Same author

Who believes in repressed memories? The roles of gender, age, and education in a national sample of United States adults.

Memory (Hove, England)·2025
Same author

The misinformation effect: A contemporary replication and extension of Loftus et al. (1978) to investigate its underlying mechanisms.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2025
Same author

In a UK sample, EMDR and other trauma therapists indicate beliefs in unconscious repression and dissociative amnesia.

Memory (Hove, England)·2025
Same author

Same concept, different label: the effect of repressed memory and dissociative amnesia terminology on beliefs and recovered memory admissibility in court.

Memory (Hove, England)·2025
Same author

Reappraising a Parent can Occur With Non-suggestive Questions: Changing Emotions and Memories of Emotion.

Psychological reports·2024
Same journal

Episodic and semantic memory contributions to imagination and creativity.

Memory (Hove, England)·2026
Same journal

What is the relationship between stress and prospective memory in everyday environments?

Memory (Hove, England)·2026
Same journal

Revisiting the confidence-accuracy relationship in eyewitness identification: a metacognitive perspective.

Memory (Hove, England)·2026
Same journal

Beliefs about child witnesses: a survey of Danish legal professionals, social workers and psychologists.

Memory (Hove, England)·2026
Same journal

Potto-biographical memory ≈ autobiographical memory: on the retrieval and organisation of fictional- and personal-event memories.

Memory (Hove, England)·2026
Same journal

Conceptual and perceptual chunking of real-world objects in visual working memory.

Memory (Hove, England)·2026
See all related articles

Memory experts are highly skeptical of repressed memory, even more so than practitioners or the public. While a few acknowledge retrieval inhibition, all experts emphasize memory distortion risks.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Forensic Psychology

Background:

  • Beliefs about memory influence life decisions.
  • Previous research identified a scientist-practitioner gap in beliefs about repressed memory.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To report on the beliefs of memory experts regarding repressed memory.
  • To compare memory experts' beliefs with those of practitioners, students, and the public.

Main Methods:

  • Surveyed 17 memory experts on their beliefs about memory.
  • Collected statistical data and written responses from experts.
  • Compared expert beliefs to previously reported data from other groups.

Main Results:

  • Memory experts were significantly more skeptical of repressed memory than practitioners, students, and the public.
Keywords:
Memory beliefsclinical psychologylawmemory expertsrepressed memory

Related Experiment Videos

  • A minority of experts cited retrieval inhibition research, maintaining an open mind.
  • All memory experts highlighted the significant dangers of memory distortion.

    • Conclusions:

    • Memory experts exhibit strong skepticism towards repressed memory, exceeding that of other groups.
    • Despite some openness to specific mechanisms like retrieval inhibition, the consensus among experts underscores memory's fallibility and distortion risks.