Publications by authors named "S Wiechert"
Cognitive and social factors can deteriorate eyewitness identification performance in children and older adults. An identification procedure that mitigates the effect of such factors could be beneficial for child and older adult witnesses. In a field experiment, we mapped identification performance in a large community sample (N = 1239) across the lifespan (ages 6-79 years) for two different identification procedures: classic lineups and reaction time-based Concealed Information Test (RT-CIT).
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- The Think/No-Think (TNT) task studies how trying to suppress memories affects recall, specifically showing that suppressing certain targets leads to poorer recall compared to Baseline items, known as Suppression-Induced Forgetting (SIF).
- Recent research by Wiechert et al. raised questions about the reliability of these findings, prompting two replication studies with undergraduate psychology students to examine SIF in different settings.
- The first study confirmed SIF in a lab setting, but the second study found no evidence of SIF in an online setting, suggesting that the differences in results may indicate limitations in the generalizability of the SIF effect across various testing environments.
In response to the replication crisis in psychology, the scientific community has advocated open science practices to promote transparency and reproducibility. Although existing reviews indicate inconsistent and generally low adoption of open science in psychology, a current-day, detailed analysis is lacking. Recognising the significant impact of false memory research in legal contexts, we conducted a preregistered systematic review to assess the integration of open science practices within this field, analysing 388 publications from 2015 to 2023 (including 15 replications and 3 meta-analyses).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParticipants in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm learn lists of words (e.g., bed, tired) associated with a nonpresented lure (i.
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