title: Personality characteristics associated with susceptibility to false memories.
abstract: This study examined whether certain personality characteristics are associated with susceptibility to false memories. Participants first answered questions from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in order to measure various personality characteristics. They then watched a video excerpt, the simulated eyewitness event. They were next encouraged to lie about the videotaped event during an interview. A week later, some participants recognized confabulated events as being from the video. Two personality characteristics in particular--the introversion-extroversion and thinking-feeling dimensions--were associated with susceptibility to false memories.
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: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sparrow
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jennifer
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires