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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 6/2022

06-01-2022 | Original Article

Who did I lie to that day? Deception impairs memory in daily life

Auteurs: Yan Li, Zhiwei Liu, Xiping Liu

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2022

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Abstract

Research has demonstrated that deceptive responses can undermine item and source memories. However, previous studies have often randomly assigned participants to an honest or deception group and asked them to respond in specific ways in an interview, rather than providing them a choice of what response to give. Moreover, little attention has been given to destination memory in previous research. Using a daily life paradigm, we investigated the effects of deception on memory. After completing a mock shopping task, participants were told that someone would ask them questions about their shopping lists. The participants voluntarily chose to tell the truth or lie in the interview and were encouraged to respond as they would in their daily lives. An item memory test, source memory test and destination memory test were given 48 h after the interview. Source and destination memories but not item memories were impaired for participants who chose to lie. Specifically, liars forgot the things about which they lied and mistakenly believed that they lied about many things that they did not, and they also did not remember to whom they lied. We conclude that deception can disrupt memory in daily life.
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Thirty-two adults (11 males) were recruited in the replicated experiment. They were asked to complete a mock shopping task, a filler task (playing Tetris), and then a baseline memory test. The participants were told that two interviewers would ask them several questions about their shopping lists, and they could answer each question honestly or dishonestly. The participants were paid for 30 yuan for their participation.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Who did I lie to that day? Deception impairs memory in daily life
Auteurs
Yan Li
Zhiwei Liu
Xiping Liu
Publicatiedatum
06-01-2022
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2022
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01619-x

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