Citation

Drivdahl SB, Zaragoza MS, Learned DM. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 2009; 23(1): 13-35.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/acp.1446

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Two experiments employed an eyewitness suggestibility paradigm to examine the effects of emotional elaboration on the creation of false memories for suggested events. The results of both experiments converge in showing that reflectively elaborating on the emotional consequences of suggested events increases both false belief and false memory in having witnessed the suggested events. Moreover, the results also showed that emotional elaboration leads to higher false memory than other types of meaningful elaboration, thus providing evidence that the emotional content of the elaboration plays a role in promoting false memory development. The results have several real-world implications for forensic and therapeutic interviews. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: en