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ERIC Number: EJ734713
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Sep
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Compelling Untruths: Content Borrowing and Vivid False Memories
Lampinen, James Michael; Meier, Christopher R.; Arnal, Jack D.; Leding, Juliana K.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v31 n5 p954-963 Sep 2005
False memories are sometimes accompanied by surprisingly vivid experiential detail that makes them difficult to distinguish from actual memories. Such strikingly real false memories may be produced by a process called content borrowing in which details from presented items are errantly borrowed to corroborate the occurrence of the false memory item. In 2 experiments using think-out-loud protocols at both study and test, evidence for content borrowing occurred for more than half of the false remember judgments participants reported. The present study also provides evidence consistent with recollection rejection and distinctiveness playing a role in false-memory editing.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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