False Memory Reading Group
Spring 1999
[R]emembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organised past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. --Freddie Bartlett, 1932

Garven, S., Wood, J.M., Malpass, R.S. & Shaw, J.S. (1998). More than suggestion: The effect of interviewing techniques from the McMartin Preschool trial. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 347-359.

  Goff, L.M. & Roediger, H.L. (1998). Imagination inflation for action events: Repeated imaginings lead to illusory recollections. Memory & Cognition, 26, 20-33.

  Golding, J.M., Sanchez, R.P. & Sego, S.A. (1997). The believability of hearsay testimony in a child sexual assault trial. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 299-325.

Israel, L. & Schacter, D.L. (1997). Pictorial encoding reduces false recognition of semantic associates. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 577-581.

Kassin, S.M. & Sukel, J. (1997). Coerced confesions and the jury: An experimental test of the "harmless error" rule. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 27-46.

Landau, J.D. & Marsh, R.L. (1997). Monitoring source in an unconscious plagiarism paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 265-270.

McDermott, K.B. & Roediger, H.L. (1998). Attempting to avoid illusory memories: Robust false recognition of associates persists under conditions of explicit warning and immediate testing. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 508-520.

Pezdek, K. & Roe, C. (1997). The suggestibility of children's memory for being touched: Planting, erasing and changing memories. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 95-106.

Pezdek, K., Finger, K. & Hodge, D. (1997). Planting false childhood memories: The role of event plausibility. Psychological Science, 8, 437-441.

Schreiber, T.A. & Sergent, S.D. (1998). The role of commitment in producing misinformation effects in eyewitness memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 443-448.

Thompson, W.C., Clarke-Stewart, K.A. & Lepore, S.J. (1997). What did the janitor do? Suggestive interviewing and the accuracy of childrenâs accounts. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 405-426.

Underwood, J. & Pezdek, K. (1998). Memory suggestibility as an example of the sleeper effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 449-453.

Wells, G.L. & Bradfield, A.L. (1998). "Good, you identified the suspect": Feedback to eyewitnesses distorts their reports of the witnessing experience. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 360-376.


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