How eyewitnesses resist misinformation: Social postwarnings and the monitoring of memory characteristics. Echterhoff, G., Hirst, W., & Hussy, W. Memory & Cognition, 33(5):770–782, Psychonomic Society, July, 2005.
Paper doi abstract bibtex Previous findings have been equivocal as to whether the postevent misinformation effect on eyewitness memory is reduced by warnings presented after the misinformation (postwarnings). In the present research, social postwarnings, which characterize the postevent source as a low-credibility individual, diminished the misinformation effect in both cued recall and recognition tests. Discrediting the source as being either untrustworthy or incompetent was effective (Experiment 1). Also, postwarned participants rated reality characteristics of their memories more accurately than did participants receiving no or high-credibility information about the postevent source (Experiment 2). A social postwarning yielded the same results as an explicit source-monitoring appeal and led to longer response times for postevent items, relative to a no-warning condition (Experiments 3 and 4). The findings suggest that the reduced misinformation effect was due to more thorough monitoring of memory characteristics by postwarned participants, rather than to a stricter response criterion or to enhanced event memory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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title = {How eyewitnesses resist misinformation: {Social} postwarnings and the monitoring of memory characteristics},
volume = {33},
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doi = {10.3758/BF03193073},
abstract = {Previous findings have been equivocal as to whether the postevent misinformation effect on eyewitness memory is reduced by warnings presented after the misinformation (postwarnings). In the present research, social postwarnings, which characterize the postevent source as a low-credibility individual, diminished the misinformation effect in both cued recall and recognition tests. Discrediting the source as being either untrustworthy or incompetent was effective (Experiment 1). Also, postwarned participants rated reality characteristics of their memories more accurately than did participants receiving no or high-credibility information about the postevent source (Experiment 2). A social postwarning yielded the same results as an explicit source-monitoring appeal and led to longer response times for postevent items, relative to a no-warning condition (Experiments 3 and 4). The findings suggest that the reduced misinformation effect was due to more thorough monitoring of memory characteristics by postwarned participants, rather than to a stricter response criterion or to enhanced event memory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)},
number = {5},
journal = {Memory \& Cognition},
publisher = {Psychonomic Society},
author = {Echterhoff, Gerald and Hirst, William and Hussy, Walter},
month = jul,
year = {2005},
keywords = {Adult, Communication, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Mental Recall, Social Behavior, Social Influences, Source Monitoring, Visual Perception, Witnesses, eyewitness memory, memory characteristics, postevent misinformation, social postwarnings, source monitoring},
pages = {770--782},
}
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