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Preferred term

explanatory role hypothesis  

Definition

  • The hypothesis that suggestions increase the likelihood of developing false memories if they provide an explanation for the event.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Chrobak, Q. M., & Zaragoza, M. S. (2013). When forced fabrications become truth: Causal explanations and false memory development. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(3), 827-844. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030093

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Rindal, E. J., Chrobak, Q. M., Zaragoza, M. S., & Weihing, C. A. (2017). Mechanisms of eyewitness suggestibility: Tests of the explanatory role hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(5), 1413–1425. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1201-8

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-J9M18D03-P

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