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Would you recognize the perpetrator? What do you need to know when you have to make an identification from a lineup?

... rejects the lineup (correct rejection). Third, a false positive outcome occurs if the perpetrator is absent in the lineup , ... who have received positive feedback evaluate their memories as clearer, report having had a better view of the perpetrator, and ... / more

The Time Paradox: the new psychology of time that will change your life.

... about the “marshmallow” experiment or the studies on false memories by Elisabeth Loftus, there is probably not much more psychological ... / more

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

... they thinking about? What emotions are present in nostalgic memories? To answer these questions, Wildschut and colleagues (2006) ... to be a loneliness assessment and then presenting them with false feedback that, relative to their university peers, they had scored high ... / 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 knee-jerk ... / more

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice.

... you? Is it common to lie on purpose to a suspect and invent false evidence to get a confession? Can a suggestive interview create false memories in a witness without her noticing? Is a person more likely to get ... / more

Seeing and Believing: Common Courtroom Myths in Eyewitness Memory

... if it fails to distinguish between accurate and inaccurate memories or identify the contextual factors that affect memory reliability. As ... M. (2015). When children are the least vulnerable to false memories : A true report or a case of autosuggestion? Journal of ... / more

Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?

... erroneously come to believe that they recovered very early memories of abuse experiences (Loftus, 1993). As for these alleged recovered ... that the event actually happened, turning them from false memories into nonbelieved ones. Nonbelieved memories have ... / 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 suggestive ... to false allegations or even create entirely false memories of abuse (Loftus & Pickrell, 1995). Yes, you read right; memories ... / more

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

... of the statement. This can induce the interviewee to form memories of non-experienced events [i.e. false memories ; 7 ]. Lab studies have shown that people can create ... / more

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

... a memory formation mode, which eases the creation of new memories. This mode facilitates the formation of stressor-related memories ... T., Otgaar, H., Candel, I., & Wolf, O. T. (2008). True or false? Memory is differentially affected by stress-induced cortisol ... / more