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Creating Memories for False Autobiographical Events in Childhood: A Systematic Review.
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- Unringing the bell: Successful debriefing following a rich false memory study.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- Narrative Review of the Complex Interaction between Pain and Trauma in Children: A Focus on Biological Memory, Preclinical Data, and Epigenetic Processes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Childhood maltreatment and poor functional outcomes at the transition to adulthood: a comparison of prospective informant- and retrospective self-reports of maltreatment.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be reversed.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Review
- Scientific evidence versus outdated beliefs: A response to Brewin (2016).Journal of abnormal psychology · 2016Article
- Comparing Autobiographical Brand Images and Neutral Images Regarding False Memory Formation.Basic and clinical neuroscienceArticle
- The Potential for False Memories is Bigger than What Brewin and Andrews Suggest.Applied cognitive psychologyArticle
- Misrepresentations and Flawed Logic About the Prevalence of False Memories.Applied cognitive psychologyArticle
- Creating Memories for False Autobiographical Events in Childhood: A Systematic Review.Applied cognitive psychologyArticle
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Abstract
Using a framework that distinguishes autobiographical belief, recollective experience, and confidence in memory, we review three major paradigms used to suggest false childhood events to adults: imagination inflation, false feedback and memory implantation. Imagination inflation and false feedback studies increase the belief that a suggested event occurred by a small amount such that events are still thought unlikely to have happened. In memory implantation studies, some recollective experience for the suggested events is induced on average in 47% of participants, but only in 15% are these experiences likely to be rated as full memories. We conclude that susceptibility to false memories of childhood events appears more limited than has been suggested. The data emphasise the complex judgements involved in distinguishing real from imaginary recollections and caution against accepting investigator-based ratings as necessarily corresponding to participants' self-reports. Recommendations are made for presenting the results of these studies in courtroom settings.
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