Departmental Papers (Psychiatry)
Title
Individual Differences in the Formation of False Memories: Is Suggestibility a Predictive Factor?
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
2003
Publication Source
Colgate University Journal of Sciences
Volume
35
Start Page
35
Last Page
91
Abstract
Individual differences in the formation of false memories using suggestibility as a predictive factor were investigated. Undergraduate males and females were administered two false memory paradigms: the Deese-Roedinger-McDermott (DRM) (1995) word recognition task and the Kassin & Kiechel (KK) ALT key task (1996). Subsequently, participants were administered the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS) 2 to determine their suggestibility scores. As predicted, higher suggestibility scores were correlated with forming a false memory in the Kassin & Kiechel task. However, suggestibility was not correlated with the DRM task. These results provide evidence that suggestibility is a predictive factor for one false memory paradigm but not the other, indicating that perhaps different cognitive mechanisms underlie the two.
Recommended Citation
Beidas, Rinad S., "Individual Differences in the Formation of False Memories: Is Suggestibility a Predictive Factor?" (2003). Departmental Papers (Psychiatry). 16.
https://repository.upenn.edu/psychiatry_papers/16
Date Posted: 15 August 2017
Comments
At the time of this publication, Dr. Beidas was an undergraduate student at Colgate University, but she is now a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania.
The publication from which this article has been reproduced has ceased to be published in the interim.