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SUBMITTER: Gustafsson PU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450142 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in psychology 20190329
Evaluating eyewitness testimonies has proven a difficult task. Recent research, however, suggests that incorrect memories are more effortful to retrieve than correct memories, and confidence in a memory is based on retrieval effort. We aimed to replicate and extend these findings, adding retrieval latency as a predictor of memory accuracy. Participants watched a film sequence with a staged crime and were interviewed about its content. We then analyzed retrieval effort cues in witness responses. ...[more]