ArticlePsychopharmacology2017
Alcohol-induced retrograde facilitation renders witnesses of crime less suggestible to misinformation.
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- No evidence that low levels of intoxication at both encoding and retrieval impact scores on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale.Psychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- The impact of post-encoding alcohol consumption on episodic memory recall and remember-know responses in heavy drinkers.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Acute alcohol intoxication and alcohol expectancy effects on women's memory for consensual and non-consensual sexual activity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The intoxicated co-witness: effects of alcohol and dyadic discussion on memory conformity and event recall.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Improving intoxicated witness recall with the Enhanced Cognitive Interview.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- An experimental examination of the effects of alcohol consumption and exposure to misleading postevent information on remembering a hypothetical rape scenario.Applied cognitive psychologyArticle
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Abstract
rationaleResearch has shown that alcohol can have both detrimental and facilitating effects on memory: intoxication can lead to poor memory for information encoded after alcohol consumption (anterograde amnesia) and may improve memory for information encoded before consumption (retrograde facilitation). This study examined whether alcohol consumed after witnessing a crime can render individuals less vulnerable to misleading post-event information (misinformation).
methodParticipants watched a simulated crime video. Thereafter, one third of participants expected and received alcohol (alcohol group), one third did not expect but received alcohol (reverse placebo), and one third did not expect nor receive alcohol (control). After alcohol consumption, participants were exposed to misinformation embedded in a written narrative about the crime. The following day, participants completed a cued-recall questionnaire about the event.
resultsControl participants were more likely to report misinformation compared to the alcohol and reverse placebo group.
conclusionThe findings suggest that we may oversimplify the effect alcohol has on suggestibility and that sometimes alcohol can have beneficial effects on eyewitness memory by protecting against misleading post-event information.
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