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Exhibit 1095

Sources of the continued influence effect: When misinformation in memory affects later inferences

Exhibit 1095 ยท Peer-reviewed article

Sources of the continued influence effect: When misinformation in memory affects later inferences

The results showed that Ss continued to make inferences involving discredited information when it afforded causal structure, but not when only incidentally mentioned or primed during an intervening task.

Laboratory experiments on the continued influence effect; providing a plausible causal alternative, rather than simply negating the misinformation, reduced it.

Source
Hollyn M. Johnson and Colleen M. Seifert, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 20(6):1420-1436
Date
1994
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Peer-reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.20.6.1420
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