Four decades of research and hundreds of studies speak to the power of post-event
misinformation to bias eyewitness accounts of events (see eg, Loftus' summary, 2005). A …

Two types of misinformation effects are discussed in the literature—the post-event
misinformation effect and the continued influence effect. The former refers to the distorting …

Presenting inconsistent postevent information about a witnessed incident typically
decreases the accuracy of memory reports concerning that event (the misinformation effect) …

The DRM method has proved to be a popular and powerful, if controversial, way to study
'false memories'. One reason for the controversy is that the extent to which the DRM effect …

Eyewitnesses may be exposed to multiple, mutually contradictory pieces of misinformation.
In the simplest case of double misinformation, an original detail is targeted by misinformation …

In the present study, we investigated the accuracy of eyewitness accounts over time from a
metacognitive perspective, in which post-retrieval monitoring and control processes play a …

Some research has found a stronger influence of directly (face-to-face; co-witness;'social')
vs. indirectly (through written reports,'non-social') encountered post-event misinformation on …

Multiple studies have reported evidence that the misinformation effect can be reduced or
even eliminated under some conditions, but these studies have typically used warnings that …

Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of initial memory testing in terms of
“inoculating” eyewitness memory against forgetting. The aim of the present study was to …

The culture in which individuals are socialised can play a role in shaping their eyewitness
memory reports. Drawing on self‐construal theory, we examined cultural differences in the …