ReviewClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2017
What Drives False Memories in Psychopathology? A Case for Associative Activation.
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- Knowledge of legal professionals about age trends in false memory propensity: a vignette study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- When Imagination Feels Like Reality: A Case Study of False Memories and Maladaptive Daydreaming in Visual Impairment.Case reports in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Contradictory findings in the study of emotional false memory: a review on the inadvisability of controlling valence and arousal.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- False memory in between-language conditions: a brief review on the effect of encoding and retrieving in different languages.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- False memory in a second language: The importance of controlling the knowledge of word meaning.PloS one · 2023Article
- Integrative Brain Dynamics in Childhood Bullying Victimization: Cognitive and Emotional Convergence Associated With Stress Psychopathology.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Review
- The Role of Language Proficiency in False Memory: A Mini Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Mental Resilience and Coping With Stress: A Comprehensive, Multi-level Model of Cognitive Processing, Decision Making, and Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 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
- A self-reference false memory effect in the DRM paradigm: Evidence from Eastern and Western samples.Memory & cognition · 2019Article
- Lateral Eye Movements Increase False Memory Rates.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2018Article
- Patterns of peritraumatic threat perceptions in patients evaluated for suspected acute coronary syndrome according to prior and current posttraumatic stress symptoms.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
In clinical and court settings, it is imperative to know whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression may make people susceptible to false memories. We conducted a review of the literature on false memory effects in participants with PTSD, a history of trauma, or depression. When emotional associative material was presented to these groups, their levels of false memory were raised relative to those in relevant comparison groups. This difference did not consistently emerge when neutral or nonassociative material was presented. Our conclusion is supported by a quantitative comparison of effect sizes between studies using emotional associative or neutral, nonassociative material. Our review suggests that individuals with PTSD, a history of trauma, or depression are at risk for producing false memories when they are exposed to information that is related to their knowledge base.
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