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Lie and memory: strategies of “hiding a small fact” in an eye witness testimony, its effects on memory, and aging.
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Etsuko T. Harada (Hosei Univ, Japan)
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From testimonies’ viewpoint, it is natural that they might have some facts in their mind which they do not refer in their testimonies. How do they cover up their “holes” in their testimonies, and what is the effects on memories of these “cover-up” telling. Two eyewitness experiments with video-clips were executed: in Exp. 1, older and young adults participated an individual experiment of testimonies, and showed varieties of strategies how to cover the holes. In Exp. 2, participants did a paper-and-pencil type testimonies and memory tests, and indicated effects of “lies” in testimonies on the memory, especially on memory confidence.
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