Abstract
The misinformation effect refers to the impairment in memory for the past
that arises after exposure to misleading information. The phenomenon has been
investigated for at least 30 years, as investigators have addressed a number
of issues. These include the conditions under which people are especially
susceptible to the negative impact of misinformation, and conversely when are
they resistant. Warnings about the potential for misinformation sometimes work
to inhibit its damaging effects, but only under limited circumstances. The
misinformation effect has been observed in a variety of human and nonhuman
species. And some groups of individuals are more susceptible than others. At a
more theoretical level, investigators have explored the fate of the original
memory traces after exposure to misinformation appears to have made them
inaccessible. This review of the field ends with a brief discussion of the
newer work involving misinformation that has explored the processes by which
people come to believe falsely that they experienced rich complex events that
never, in fact, occurred.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Subject
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience,Cognitive Neuroscience,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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