False memory-prone personality : a study on the big five personality traits associated with susceptibility to false memory

Participants answered questions from the NEO Personality Inventory in order to measure various personality domains and facets. Once the test was completed, participants watched an excerpt from a movie—the simulated eyewitness event. Participants then answered a recall test, with some of the questions requiring a confabulated response about the events that occurred in the movie. A week later, participants answered a yes/no recognition test about the movie. Participants were warned about the misinformation elicited in the first test and asked to answer questions based on their memory of the movie. Particular personality traits were reliably linked with false-event recognition.Frost, P., Denomme, R., & Adie, M. (2009, October). False memory-prone personality : a study on the big five personality traits associated with susceptibility to false memory. Presentation conducted at the New England Psychological Association Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.ed