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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Legal Psychology
  • Memory Research

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  • Eyewitness testimony is crucial in legal proceedings.
  • Eyewitnesses can be victims (self-referential) or bystanders (other-referential).
  • Limited research exists on how self-reference impacts suggestibility to misinformation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if self-reference (victim vs. bystander) influences susceptibility to false memory creation.
  • To assess the impact of processing crime information in relation to oneself versus others.
  • To identify potential risk factors for memory distortions in eyewitnesses.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted with Dutch and Chinese participants (Ns = 68 and 122).
  • A misinformation procedure was employed.
  • Participants were experimentally assigned to view a crime slideshow as either victims (photoshopped into the event) or bystanders.

Main Results:

  • A self-enhanced suggestibility effect was observed in both experiments.
  • Participants viewing themselves as victims created significantly more false memories after misinformation exposure compared to bystanders.
  • Self-reference increased susceptibility to memory errors.

Conclusions:

  • Self-reference acts as a novel risk factor in the formation of false memories.
  • Victim status in eyewitness accounts may heighten vulnerability to misinformation.
  • These findings have implications for evaluating the reliability of eyewitness memory reports.