title: Anchoring effects in the development of false childhood memories.
abstract: When people receive descriptions or doctored photos of events that never happened, they often come to remember those events. But if people receive both a description and a doctored photo, does the order in which they receive the information matter? We asked people to consider a description and a doctored photograph of a childhood hot air balloon ride, and we varied which medium they saw first. People who saw a description first reported more false images and memories than did people who saw a photo first, a result that fits with an anchoring account of false childhood memories.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Warwick, Coventry, England. k.a.wade@warwick.ac.uk
authors.forename: Kimberley A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wade
authors.forename: Maryanne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Garry
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Nash
authors.forename: David N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Harper
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010781:Photography; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult