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Memory
September 2024
School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
When eyewitness receive feedback implying they have accurately identified the perpetrator from a lineup, it boosts their confidence and possibly distorts their memory. Most research investigating this "post-identification feedback effect" (PIF effect) suggests the feedback changes eyewitness' retrospective memory of their actual experiences. But it remains unclear to what extent this feedback might change the eyewitness's subsequent behaviour.
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June 2024
University of Waterloo, Psychology, Anthropology & Sociology Building, Room 2257, 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.
Access to digital technology in the 21st century has led to the emergence of media multitasking (MMT), which involves attempting to engage with multiple streams of media at the same time. This behaviour, which is frequently considered to be a form of inattention, has become increasingly prevalent in educational settings, such as undergraduate lectures. The aim of the present study was to examine media-multitasking (MMT) during an asynchronous online lecture by giving participants the opportunity to engage with a secondary, non-required media stream (i.
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August 2023
School of Psychology, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Considerable evidence has shown that repeating the same misinformation increases its influence (i.e., repetition effects).
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July 2024
Daily Tech News Show, Los Angeles, California.
Traditional contact tracing is one of the most powerful weapons people have in the battle against a pandemic, especially when vaccines do not yet exist or do not afford complete protection from infection. But the effectiveness of contact tracing hinges on its ability to find infected people quickly and obtain accurate information from them. Therefore, contact tracing inherits the challenges associated with the fallibilities of memory.
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August 2023
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Can exposure to a doctored photograph of a plausible yet fictitious childhood event create false memories in adults? Twenty years ago, (Wade, K. A., Garry, M.
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