It is frequently asserted that the understanding of memory among the general public and among legal and psychological professionals is deficient, the most prominent examples being that many people appear to liken memory to a video camera, overestimate the association between accuracy and confidence, and believe in repression. The existing evidence is limited to single questionnaire items, however, and to date there has been little investigation of context effects or of the public's underlying assumptions about memory. In the first study we found that people endorse the video camera metaphor as well as several other prominent memory metaphors, but that they were more likely to agree that memory is not like a video camera when the assumptions...
uman memory is susceptible to errors and distortions. This may sound cliché (Loftus, 2005), but the ...
International audienceIn three studies, we examined whether beliefs in repressed memory and dissocia...
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite l...
It is frequently asserted that the understanding of memory among the general public and among legal ...
Memory experts, the police, and the public, completed a memory questionnaire containing a series of ...
Beliefs about the limits and the reliability of human memory are impor-tant because they govern our ...
Doctored images can cause people to believe in and remember experiences that never occurred, yet the...
The present study investigated the precise nature of crashing memory reports: Are they truly memorie...
Numerous studies claim to have shown that false memories can be easily created in the laboratory. Ho...
ABSTRACTWhat we believe about how memory works affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life...
We examined the impact of social feedback and objective false evidence on belief in occurrence, beli...
What does believing in repressed memory mean? In a recent paper in this journal, Brewin, Li, Ntarant...
What we believe about how memory works affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life. In Pat...
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite l...
uman memory is susceptible to errors and distortions. This may sound cliché (Loftus, 2005), but the ...
International audienceIn three studies, we examined whether beliefs in repressed memory and dissocia...
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite l...
It is frequently asserted that the understanding of memory among the general public and among legal ...
Memory experts, the police, and the public, completed a memory questionnaire containing a series of ...
Beliefs about the limits and the reliability of human memory are impor-tant because they govern our ...
Doctored images can cause people to believe in and remember experiences that never occurred, yet the...
The present study investigated the precise nature of crashing memory reports: Are they truly memorie...
Numerous studies claim to have shown that false memories can be easily created in the laboratory. Ho...
ABSTRACTWhat we believe about how memory works affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life...
We examined the impact of social feedback and objective false evidence on belief in occurrence, beli...
What does believing in repressed memory mean? In a recent paper in this journal, Brewin, Li, Ntarant...
What we believe about how memory works affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life. In Pat...
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite l...
uman memory is susceptible to errors and distortions. This may sound cliché (Loftus, 2005), but the ...
International audienceIn three studies, we examined whether beliefs in repressed memory and dissocia...
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite l...