Event plausibility and imagination inflation: A reply to Pezdek and Blandon-Gitlin

Stefanie J. Sharman; Alan Scoboria

doi:10.1002/acp.1705

Event plausibility and imagination inflation: A reply to Pezdek and Blandon-Gitlin

Applied Cognitive Psychology ◽

10.1002/acp.1705 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 344-346 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Stefanie J. Sharman ◽

Alan Scoboria

Keyword(s):

Imagination Inflation ◽

Event Plausibility

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Do People’s Motives Influence Their Susceptibility to Imagination Inflation?

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000010 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 77-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Stefanie J. Sharman ◽

Samantha Calacouris

Keyword(s):

Autobiographical Memory ◽

Source Monitoring ◽

False Beliefs ◽

Explicit Motives ◽

Imagination Inflation ◽

Motivational Model ◽

Past Experiences ◽

Implicit And Explicit ◽

Affiliation Motives

People are motivated to remember past autobiographical experiences related to their current goals; we investigated whether people are also motivated to remember false past experiences related to those goals. In Session 1, we measured subjects’ implicit and explicit achievement and affiliation motives. Subjects then rated their confidence about, and memory for, childhood events containing achievement and affiliation themes. Two weeks later in Session 2, subjects received a “computer-generated profile” based on their Session 1 ratings. This profile suggested that one false achievement event and one false affiliation event had happened in childhood. After imagining and describing the suggested false events, subjects made confidence and memory ratings a second time. For achievement events, subjects’ explicit motives predicted their false beliefs and memories. The results are explained using source monitoring and a motivational model of autobiographical memory.

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Imagination inflation effects are unrelated across two imagination inflation tasks.

Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice ◽

10.1037/cns0000178 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 90-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dustin P. Calvillo ◽

Angelina N. Vasquez ◽

Amanda Pesavento

Keyword(s):

Imagination Inflation

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The thin line between reality and imagination: The imagination inflation effect in Korsakoff’s syndrome.

Neuropsychology ◽

10.1037/neu0000635 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 569-577

Author(s):

Mohamad El Haj ◽

Frédérique Robin

Keyword(s):

Korsakoff’S Syndrome ◽

Thin Line ◽

Imagination Inflation ◽

Korsakoff's Syndrome

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Planting False Childhood Memories: The Role of Event Plausibility

Psychological Science ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00457.x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 437-441 ◽

Cited By ~ 176

Author(s):

Kathy Pezdek ◽

Kimberly Finger ◽

Dandle Hodge

Keyword(s):

High School Students ◽

Cognitive Processes ◽

Close Relative ◽

Childhood Memories ◽

School Students ◽

Catholic High School ◽

Jewish Ritual ◽

False Event ◽

Event Plausibility

Two experiments tested and confirmed the hypothesis that events will be suggestively planted in memory to the degree that they are plausible and script-relevant knowledge exists in memory In Experiment 1, 22 Jewish and 29 Catholic high school students were read descriptions of three true events and two false events reported to have occurred when they were 8 years old One false event described a Jewish ritual, and one described a Catholic ritual Results for the false events showed the predicted asymmetry Whereas 7 Catholics but 0 Jews remembered only the Catholic false event, 3 Jews but only 1 Catholic remembered only the Jewish false event Two subjects recalled both events In Experiment 2 20 confederates read descriptions of one true event and two false events to a younger sibling or close relative The more plausible false event described the relative being lost in a mall while shopping the less plausible false event described the relative receiving an enema Three events were falselv remembered, all were the more plausible event We conclude by outlining a framework that specifies the cognitive processes underlying suggestively planting false events in memory

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