ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2019
A postdictive bias associated with déjà vu.
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- Tulving's (1989) Doctrine of Concordance Revisited.Journal of cognition · 2025Review
- Piquing Curiosity: Déjà vu-Like States Are Associated with Feelings of Curiosity and Information-Seeking Behaviors.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Postdiction in Visual Awareness and Intrinsic Religiosity.Cognitive science · 2022Article
- Postdiction in Visual Awareness in Schizophrenia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Can cue familiarity during recall failure prompt illusory recollective experience?Memory & cognition · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recent research links reports of déjà vu - the feeling of having experienced something before despite knowing otherwise - with an illusory feeling of prediction. In the present study, a new finding is presented in which reports of déjà vu are associated not only with a predictive bias, but also with a postdictive bias, whereby people are more likely to feel that an event unfolded as expected after the event prompted déjà vu than after it did not. During a virtual tour, feelings of predicting the next turn were more likely during reported déjà vu, as in prior research. Then, after actually seeing the turn, participants exhibited a postdictive bias toward feeling that the scene unfolded as expected following déjà vu reports. This postdictive bias following déjà vu reports was associated with higher perceived scene familiarity intensity. A potential reason for this association may be that high familiarity intensity as an event outcome unfolds falsely signals confirmatory evidence of having sensed all along how it would unfold. Future research should further investigate this possibility.
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