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SUBMITTER: Brackmann N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5129519 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep-Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brackmann Nathalie N Otgaar Henry H Sauerland Melanie M Howe Mark L ML
Applied cognitive psychology 20160719 5
Witnesses are frequently questioned immediately following a crime. The effects of such testing on false recall are inconclusive: Testing may inoculate against subsequent misinformation or enhance false memory formation. We examined whether different types of processing can account for these discrepancies. Drawing from Fuzzy-trace and Associative-activation theories, immediate questions that trigger the processing of the global understanding of the event can heighten false memory rates. However, ...[more]