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The impact of lying about a traumatic virtual reality experience on memory
- Source :
- Memory & Cognition, Memory & Cognition, 47(3), 485-495. Springer New York, Memory & Cognition, 47(3). Psychonomic Society
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- The goal of the present experiment was to examine the effect of certain (deceptive) strategies (e.g., false denial) on memory. Specifically, participants were shown a traumatic virtual reality (VR) video of an airplane crash. Following this, participants (N= 94) received questions concerning details from the VR scene in a baseline memory task. Then, participants could choose from 3 options how to cope in response to having experienced the VR scene: tell the truth, falsely deny, or fabricate. The majority opted to tell the truth (n = 81). A subsample of truth tellers were instructed to falsely deny having seen certain details. One week later, all participants received a source monitoring task in which they were asked (1) whether they remembered talking about these details during an interview, and (2) whether they remembered seeing certain details during the VR experience the week before. Participants had to tell the truth during this task. Participants who were instructed to falsely deny showed impaired memory for presented details that had previously been discussed (i.e., denial-induced forgetting) and seen in the VR scene. Also, the presentation of certain details in the baseline memory task seemed to inoculate participants who were instructed to falsely deny from experiencing memory impairment. The current experiment suggests that false denials can have adverse ramifications for memory for what is discussed and seen. ispartof: MEMORY & COGNITION vol:47 issue:3 pages:485-495 ispartof: location:United States status: published
- Subjects :
- Male
STRESS
Psychological Trauma/psychology
Social Sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Adaptation, Psychological
Psychology
media_common
Psychology, Experimental
05 social sciences
Virtual Reality
Impaired memory
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Denial
Psychological/physiology
Female
Coping
medicine.symptom
Episodic
Cognitive psychology
Adult
Deception
Adolescent
Experimental psychology
Memory, Episodic
media_common.quotation_subject
Amnesia
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Adaptation, Psychological/physiology
FALSE DENIALS
Psychological Trauma
Virtual reality
Article
050105 experimental psychology
MECHANISMS
Fabrication
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Memory
medicine
Humans
Memory impairment
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Adaptation
CONSEQUENCES
Forgetting
FORCED CONFABULATION
AMNESIA
RESILIENCE
Lying
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15325946 and 0090502X
- Volume :
- 47
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Memory & Cognition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0bab4c639471c2d56070639622413f97