Induced false memories of having heard the unspoken: a demonstration.
In a mock public survey situation, many students who had been led to expect to be asked to name their academic majors or home towns later declared that they had been asked for that information even though they had not. Such illusory memories were even more common among subjects who had spontaneously volunteered the unasked-for information during the interview. Both results have important implications for reality-monitoring processes and errors.
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8686, USA. teparks@ucdavis.edu
D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes; D011939:Mental Recall; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012094:Repression, Psychology