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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Misinformation can influence memory and judgment.
  • Emotional states may modulate susceptibility to misinformation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of anger on the acceptance of false details.
  • To examine how anger influences source monitoring accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • A three-phase misinformation paradigm was employed.
  • Participants viewed an event, received schema-consistent and irrelevant misinformation, and underwent a source monitoring test.
  • Anger was induced or a neutral mood was maintained between experimental phases.

Main Results:

  • Participants were more susceptible to schema-consistent misinformation.
  • Anger increased suggestibility for false details without affecting accuracy for true details.
  • Anger also increased confidence and decision speed for incorrect judgments.

Conclusions:

  • Anger enhances the acceptance of false, schema-consistent details.
  • Increased confidence and speed in judgments accompany heightened misinformation acceptance under anger.
  • Findings have implications for understanding anger's impact on memory, particularly in eyewitness testimony.