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- Title
Crashing Memories and the Problem of 'Source Monitoring'
- Authors
Crombag, Hans F. M.; Wagenaar, Willem A.; van Koppen, Peter J.
- Abstract
We demonstrate that it is relatively easy in a real life situation to make reasonably intelligent adults believe that they have witnessed something they actually have not seen themselves, but only heard reports about from others, and to make them report about particular details of the event. The event concerns the crashing of an El AI Boeing 747 on apartment buildings in Amsterdam. Over sixty per cent of the subjects said they had seen the crash on television, although no television film exists. Unexpectedly, women proved themselves significantly more vulnerable to this effect than men.
- Subjects
AMSTERDAM (Netherlands); NETHERLANDS; AIRCRAFT accidents; BOEING 747 (Jet transport); PSYCHOLOGY of women; TELEVISION programs; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1996, Vol 10, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199604)10:2<95::AID-ACP366>3.0.CO;2-#