APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Lying Creates Persistent False Memories
- Steven Frenda
California State University, Los Angeles - Chenxin Yu
Oklahoma State University - Demi Hart
California State University, Los Angeles - Alexis Hogan
California State University, Los Angeles - Elizabeth Loftus
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
Participants (N=1003) wrote false stories about a subset of childhood events, embellished with plausible sensory and autobiographical details. Later, they reported only their sincere memories for those and other control events. Writing about the events increased the likelihood of subsequent memories, and those memories persisted one month later.
Memory
