Can Enlightenment Post-Warnings Eliminate Memory Conformity?

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8375
Evano, Luz de Luna

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Published: Dec 15, 2020
Issue: Vol. 38 No. 3 (2020): Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
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Keywords: Enlightenment memory conformity MORI technique post-warning witnesses

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  Delfina Manuela Silva Fernandes
Universidade do Minho
  Pedro B Albuquerque
Grupo de Investigação em Memória e Cognição Humana, Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057, Gualtar, Portugal.
  Karlos Luna
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Abstract




After discussing with another witness an event, a person can incorporate new and false information in his/her own memories. That false information may appear in later accounts of the event, a phenomenon called memory conformity. The present study aimed to understand how witnesses can be protected from this false information using enlightenment post-warnings and the MORI technique. In pairs, each participant saw a different video that contained inconsistent information. Then, members of the pair discussed details of the video, and sometimes spontaneously introduced false information. Finally, half of the participants received an enlightenment post-warn- ing, and then all participants completed a recognition test. The results showed that the discussion between witnesses impaired memory accuracy, showing the memory conformity effect. However, the enlightenment post-warnings did not reduce that effect. We conclude that the misleading information introduced by discussing with another witness has a strong influence on the memory of the event. In this way, the accounts of witnesses may contain false information difficult to get rid of, which is particularly worrying to the legal system.




Author Biography

Delfina Manuela Silva Fernandes, Universidade do Minho

Convidada do Grupo de Investigação em Memória e Cognição Humana, Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho.

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Silva Fernandes, D. M., B Albuquerque, P., & Luna, K. (2020). Can Enlightenment Post-Warnings Eliminate Memory Conformity?. Avances En Psicología Latinoamericana, 38(3), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8375
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