ArticleMemory & cognition2019
The impact of lying about a traumatic virtual reality experience on memory.
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- Research on the Effects of Lying on Memory: A Scientometric Analysis and a Call for New Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- The effects of deception on memory: a comparative study of actors and eyewitnesses accounts.BMC psychology · 2024Trial
- Proposing immersive virtual reality scenarios for validating verbal content analysis methods in adult samples.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Can false denials turn fact into fiction? The effect of false denials on memory for self-performed actions.Psychological research · 2023Article
- External and internal influences yield similar memory effects: the role of deception and suggestion.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The effect of credibility assessment techniques on consistency and subsequent memory for the truth.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Who did I lie to that day? Deception impairs memory in daily life.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information.Behavioral sciences & the law · 2022Article
- More Lies Lead to More Memory Impairments in Daily Life.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Involvement Modulates the Effects of Deception on Memory in Daily Life.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The goal of the present experiment was to examine the effect of certain (deceptive) strategies (e.g., false denial) on memory. Specifically, participants were shown a traumatic virtual reality (VR) video of an airplane crash. Following this, participants (N= 94) received questions concerning details from the VR scene in a baseline memory task. Then, participants could choose from 3 options how to cope in response to having experienced the VR scene: tell the truth, falsely deny, or fabricate. The majority opted to tell the truth (n = 81). A subsample of truth tellers were instructed to falsely deny having seen certain details. One week later, all participants received a source monitoring task in which they were asked (1) whether they remembered talking about these details during an interview, and (2) whether they remembered seeing certain details during the VR experience the week before. Participants had to tell the truth during this task. Participants who were instructed to falsely deny showed impaired memory for presented details that had previously been discussed (i.e., denial-induced forgetting) and seen in the VR scene. Also, the presentation of certain details in the baseline memory task seemed to inoculate participants who were instructed to falsely deny from experiencing memory impairment. The current experiment suggests that false denials can have adverse ramifications for memory for what is discussed and seen.
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