A5086452860- Memory Processes and Influences
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
University of Portsmouth
2014-2025
University of Southern Mississippi
2000-2020
University of California, Irvine
2013-2015
The "memory wars" of the 1990s refers to controversy between some clinicians and memory scientists about reliability repressed memories. To investigate whether such disagreement persists, we compared various groups' beliefs their current with expressed in past studies. In Study 1, found high rates belief among undergraduates. We also that greater critical-thinking ability was associated more skepticism 2, less mainstream today 1990s. Groups contained research-oriented psychologists experts...
Significance In a unique memory-distortion study with people extraordinary memory ability, individuals highly superior autobiographical (HSAM) were as susceptible controls to false memory. The findings suggest that HSAM reconstruct their memories using associative grouping, demonstrated by word-list task, and incorporating postevent information, shown in misinformation tasks. also the reconstructive mechanisms produce distortions are basic widespread humans, it may be unlikely anyone is...
The potential hazards of endeavoring to recover ostensibly repressed memories abuse in therapy have previously been documented. Yet no large survey the general public about memory recovery has conducted. In an age-representative sample 2,326 adults United States, we found that 9% (8% weighted be representative) total reported seeing therapists who discussed possibility abuse, and 5% (4% weighted) recovering for which they had previous memory. Participants discussing were 20 times more likely...
Many studies have investigated factors that affect susceptibility to false memories. However, few the role of sleep deprivation in formation memories, despite overwhelming evidence impairs cognitive function. We examined relationship between self-reported duration and memories effect 24 hr total on found under certain conditions, can increase risk developing Specifically, increased a misinformation task when participants were deprived during event encoding, but did not significant occurred...
Several laboratory techniques have been developed over the last few decades that reliably produce memory distortions.However, it is unclear whether false production in one experimental paradigm will predict susceptibility to memories other paradigms.In Experiment 1, 202 undergraduates participated a misinformation experiment and semiautobiographical tasks involving three measures of distortion (suggestion, imagination, emotion).We established high internal consistency individual differences...
Controversy still surrounds recovered memories, centred around replacing the term repressed memory with dissociative amnesia. This study investigated whether exposure to these terminologies impacted legal opinions. In total, 886 participants were recruited across four experiments (1a/2a, followed by 1b/2b). 1a/1b, randomly allocated one of three conditions: Repressed Memory, Dissociative Amnesia, and Control. They tested reading a paragraph/watching video about terms would impact their...
Abstract Purpose A heated debate exists on whether traumatic memories can be dissociated or repressed. One way in which researchers have attempted to prove the existence of dissociative amnesia repressed memory is examine claims for events are associated with specific neural markers. Methods Here, we will argue that such neuroscientific examinations do not tell us unconsciously from consciousness, respectively. Results We discuss studies and show there no reliable biological markers alleged...
Abstract Purpose The British False Memory Society (BFMS) is a registered charity founded in 1993 following an epidemic of false‐memory type allegations by adult accusers who claimed to have remembered childhood sexual abuse for which they previously had no cognitive recollection. Many these entered counselling after typically suffering from anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. came out therapy with what appeared be false memories, the accused sometimes contacted BFMS advice. Since...
Recovered memories of abuse in therapy are especially controversial if the clients were not aware they abused before therapy. In past, such memory recovery has led to legal action, as well a debate about whether might be repressed, forgotten, or false memories. More than two decades after height controversy, it is unclear what degree still recovered today, and extent occurs France. our French survey 1312 participants (Mage = 33; 53% female), 551 reported having done at some point. Of that...
ABSTRACTWhat we believe about how memory works affects the decisions make in many aspects of life. In Patihis, Ho et al. [Patihis, L., Ho, L. Y., Tingen, I. W., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Are "memory wars" over? A scientist–practitioner gap beliefs repressed memory. Psychological Science, 25, 519–530.], documented several group's on memories and other works. Here, present previously unreported data perhaps most credible minority our dataset: experts. We provide statistics...
Summary The debate regarding the relationship between dissociation and trauma has raised questions validity of measures dissociation. Dalenberg et al.'s ( ) meta‐analysis included studies using Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES II), but excluded DES‐Comparison (DES‐C) scale, claiming that it lacked as a measure Lynn al. contended omitting those might have skewed results. In current study, we compared psychometric properties both in two nonclinical US adult (student, general population)...
Highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) is a recently identified ability that has been difficult to explain with existing science. The present study measured HSAM participants' and age/gender-matched controls' on number of behavioural measures test three main hypotheses: imaginative absorption, emotional arousal, sleep. participants were significantly higher than controls the dispositions absorption fantasy proneness. These two also associated measure within hyperthymesia...