title: Increasing false recognition rates with confirmatory feedback: a phenomenological analysis.
abstract: During a simulated witness interrogation, participants were encouraged to confabulate an account consistent with false information concerning a videotaped event. The interviewer verbally affirmed some false responses. Previous research has shown that, a week later, participants often recognize confabulated events that were affirmed by the experimenter as being from the video. What is unclear is whether confirmatory feedback encouraged a change in the mental representation of the confabulated events to fit the original event or confirmation might have merely encouraged a change in beliefs about the event. To further understand the mechanisms that underlie the confirmatory feedback effect, participants were asked to judge the phenomenological experience associated with false recognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester 03106-1045, USA. p.frost@snhu.edu
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frost
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lacroix
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sanborn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003415:Crime; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D013997:Time Factors; D014741:Video Recording