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Never give up: The persistence of misinformation effects

... misinformation is often easier said than done as false beliefs are particularly sticky. In this blog, I zoom in on the current ... one of their experiments that attempts to correct false allegations made by the Bush administration caused political conservatives to ... / more

Children are poor witnesses. Or are they?

... have been infected by memory distortions, so-called false memories . Comparing child witnesses to adult witnesses, the ... initial suspicion that evolved into serious and precise allegations with life-changing consequences for the suspect. The question ... / more

Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... – what caused so many children to report these apparently false claims? Several factors , such as the use of highly ... and social influence. This can, in turn, lead to false allegations or even create entirely false memories of abuse (Loftus & ... / more

Remembering what never occurred? Children’s false memories for repeated experiences

... to form memories of non-experienced events [i.e. false memories ; 7 ]. Lab studies have shown that people can create ... in the 1980’s which involved multiple child sexual abuse allegations that were later deemed to be false. This case is a prominent ... / more

Sorry, Not Sorry: Apologies and Denials in the #MeToo Movement

... is how the accused respond. How do they reply to such allegations? And how effective is their response, both for victims and for ... regain the trust of others by claiming the allegations to be false (1). If the accused is successful in persuading their audience, the ... / more

Can We Believe in Our Own Lies?

... we will focus on how each deceptive strategy (i.e., false denials , feigned amnesia, and fabrication ) can influence ... Psychology Press. [9] Lyon, T. D. (1995). False allegations and false denials in child sexual abuse. Psychology, Public ... / more

Are Victim or Eyewitness Statements Credible? Several Ways to Check Them

... argued that the children’s testimonies might have been false because of suggestive interviewing techniques by the children’s mothers ... K. (in press). Coercive Child Forensic Interviewing and Allegations of a Magic Stone: The Jakarta International School Case. ... / more

Does organized ritual child abuse exist?

... have so far been unable to uncover any evidence for these allegations. In this article, we discuss why the existence of such ... two phenomena: Confirmatory information processing and false memories .  Views about the world (such as those about the ... their own suffering) through this biased lens and develop false memories of imaginary events they did not actually experience. Research ... / more

How deliberate forgetting might lead to false memories

... the relationship between motivated forgetting and false memory formation, revealing its crucial impact in the legal arena.  ... Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, courageously came forward with allegations of sexual abuse against the former USA Gymnastics team doctor, ... / more