True and intentionally fabricated memories

Justice, L.V. ORCID: 0000-0003-3394-2283, Morrison, C.M. and Conway, M.A., 2013. True and intentionally fabricated memories. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66 (6), pp. 1196-1203. ISSN 1747-0218

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Abstract

The aim of the experiment reported here was to investigate the processes underlying the construction of truthful and deliberately fabricated memories. Properties of memories created to be intentionally false - fabricated memories - were compared to properties of memories believed to be true - true memories. Participants recalled and then wrote or spoke true memories and fabricated memories of everyday events. It was found that true memories were reliably more vivid than fabricated memories and were nearly always recalled from a first person perspective. In contrast, fabricated differed from true memories in that they were judged to be reliably older, were more frequently recalled from a third person perspective, and linguistic analysis revealed that they required more cognitive effort to generate. No notable differences were found across modality of reporting. Finally, it was found that, intentionally fabricated memories were created by recalling and then ‘editing’ true memories. Overall, these findings show that true and fabricated memories systematically differ, despite the fact that both are based on true memories.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Creators:	Justice, L.V., Morrison, C.M. and Conway, M.A.
Publisher:	Sage
Date:	2013
Volume:	66
Number:	6
ISSN:	1747-0218
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/17470218.2012.734832 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	15 Nov 2017 14:29
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2017 14:29
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32032

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