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Publication Date: 2004-Jan
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Eyewitness Suggestibility and Source Similarity: Intrusions of Details from One Event into Memory Reports of Another Event
Lindsay, D. Stephen; Allen, Bem P.; Chan, Jason C. K.; Dahl, Leora C.
Journal of Memory and Language, v50 n1 p96-111 Jan 2004
We explored the effect of the degree of conceptual similarity between a witnessed event and an extra-event narrative on eyewitness suggestibility. Experiments 1A and 1B replicated Allen and Lindsay's (1998) finding that subjects sometimes intrude details from a narrative description of one event into their reports of a different visual event. Those experiments also showed that intrusion rates were even higher when the narrative described the visual event itself. Experiment 2 replicated those findings, but found no more intrusions from a thematically similar versus dissimilar narrative. In Experiment 3 we disguised the relationship between the narrative and visual event, and obtained more intrusions from a thematically similar than dissimilar narrative. In Experiment 4 we obtained a thematic similarity effect when the relationship between narrative and visual event was disguised, but none when it was not. Results are discussed from the perspective of the source-monitoring framework.
Descriptors: Memory, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Psychology, Personal Narratives, Visual Perception
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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