Mindfulness/mindlessness as a new factor influencing false memories: evidence from imagination inflation and modified premature cognitive commitment study

• Authors: Struzak Pawel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Two effects that can influence the creation of false memories were investigated. First, the classic effect of imagination inflation was investigated. Second, the effect of exposure to modified premature cognitive commitment procedure, in which subjects apply bias correction in order to be opposed to suggested information. 24 subjects were asked to perform, imagine or hear simple action statements. Then half of the subjects imagined performing some other actions. One week later half of the subjects were exposed to false information that they have the tendency to underestimate the quantity of many occurrences in everyday life. The surprising finding was that imagination inflation effect had not emerged. Nevertheless, the exposure to information about fictitious deficit led to bias correction and to source monitoring errors in which actions that had not been presented were recollected as having been imagined or heard.

Keywords

EN

FALSE MEMORIES; IMAGINATION INFLATION; MINDFULNESS/ MINDLESSNESS; PREMATURE COGNITIVE COMMITMENT. BIAS CORRECTION; SOURCE MONITORING

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 202-208
• Physical description: source-id: PPB_39_4\U67X352KN3R79152.xml
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Struzak Pawel

• Pawel Struzak, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Wydzial Nauk Spolecznych, Instytut Psychologii, al. Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA072011

DOI

10.2478/v10059-008-0015-6