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Scoboria, A., Wade, Kimberley A. , Lindsay, D. S. , Azad, T., Strange, D., Ost, J. and Hyman, I. E. (2016) A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies. Memory, 25 (2). pp. 146-163. doi:10.1080/09658211.2016.1260747
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1260747
Abstract
Understanding that suggestive practices can promote false beliefs and false memories forchildhood events is important in many settings (e.g., psychotherapeutic, medical, legal). The generalizability of findings from memory implantation studies has been questioned due to variability in estimates across studies. Such variability is partly due to false memories having been operationalized differently across studies and to differences in memory induction techniques. We explored ways of defining false memory based on memory science and developed a reliable coding system that we applied to reports from eight published implantation studies (N=423). Independent raters coded transcripts using seven criteria: accepting the suggestion, elaboration beyond the suggestion, imagery, coherence, emotion, memory statements, and not rejecting the suggestion. Using this scheme, 30.4% of cases were classified as false memories and another 23% were classified as having accepted the event to some degree. When the suggestion included self-relevant information, an imagination procedure, and was not
accompanied by a photo depicting the event, the memory formation rate was 46.1%. Our research demonstrates a useful procedure for systematically combining data that are not amenable to meta-analysis, and provides the most valid estimate of false memory formation and
associated moderating factors within the implantation literature to date.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Psychology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Memory , Mental suggestion | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Memory | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0965-8211 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 28 November 2016 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 November 2016 | ||||||
| Volume: | 25 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 146-163 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2016.1260747 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Funder: | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) | ||||||
| Grant number: | RGPIN/327570−2012 |
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