False mem­o­ries of fab­ri­cat­ed polit­i­cal events - TopicsExpress



          

False mem­o­ries of fab­ri­cat­ed polit­i­cal events Exper­i­men­tal Social Psy­chol­o­gy, 2013 In largest study of false mem­o­ry to date, 5,269 par­tic­i­pants were asked about their mem­o­ries of a series of true and false polit­i­cal events. About half of the par­tic­i­pants false­ly remem­bered that the fake events had occurred — fas­ci­nat­ing­ly, there was a strong cor­re­la­tion between polit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion and the for­ma­tion of false mem­o­ries. Lib­er­als remem­bered unfa­vor­able (false) events involv­ing George Bush; con­ser­v­a­tives con­struct­ed false mem­o­ries about Barack Obama. This study illus­trates that implant­ed mem­o­ries “stick” bet­ter when they tally with some­one’s pre­ex­ist­ing thoughts and beliefs.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:26:34 +0000

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