Ironic effects of drawing attention to story errors

Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-191

  Eslick, Andrea N ^a   Fazio, Lisa K ^b   Marsh, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False memory; Fiction; Knowledge; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; READING; RECOGNITION; SUGGESTION;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION;

EID: 79951712755     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.543908     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bottoms, H. C., Eslick, A. N., & Marsh, E. J. (2010). Memory and the Moses illusion: Failures to detect contradictions with stored knowledge yield negative memorial consequences. Memory, 18, 670-678.
2. Butler, A. C., Zaromb, F. M., Lyle, K. B., & Roediger, H. L. III. (2009). Using popular films to enhance classroom learning: The good, the bad, and the interesting. Psychological Science, 9, 1161-1168.
3. Erickson, T. D., & Mattson, M. E. (1981). From words to meaning: A semantic illusion. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 540-551.
4. Fazio, L. K., & Marsh, E. J. (2008). Slowing presentation speed increases illusions of knowledge. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 180-185.
5. Gerrig, R. J., & Prentice, D. A. (1991). The representation of fictional information. Psychological Science, 2, 336-340.
6. Green, M. C., & Brock, T. C. (2000). The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 79, 701-721.
7. Green, M. C., Flynn, M., & Loftus, E. F. (1982). Inducing resistance to misleading information. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 207-219.
8. Green, M. C., Garst, J., Brock, T. C., & Chung, S. (2006). Fact versus fiction labeling: Persuasion parity despite heightened scrutiny of fact. Media Psychology, 8, 267-285.
9. Jarvis, B. G. (2006a). DirectRT (Version 2006.2.0.16) [Computer software]. New York: Empirisoft Corporation.
10. Jarvis, B. G. (2006b). MediaLab (Version 2006.1.41) [Computer software]. New York: Empirisoft Corporation.
11. L'Engle, M. (2007). A wrinkle in time. New York: Square Fish.
12. Loftus, E. F. (1979). Reactions to blatantly contradictory information. Memory & Cognition, 7, 368-374.
13. Lorch, R. F. (1989). Text-signaling devices andtheir effects on reading and memory processes. Educational Psychology Review, 1, 209-234.
14. Marsh, E. J. (2004). Story stimuli for creating false beliefs about the world. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 650-655.
15. Marsh, E. J., Balota, D. A., & Roediger, H. L. III (2005). Learning facts from fiction: Effects of healthy aging and early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychology, 19, 115-129.
16. Marsh, E. J., & Fazio., L. K. (2006). Learning errors from fiction: Difficulties in reducing reliance on fictional stories. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1140-1149.
17. Marsh, E. J., Meade, M. M., & Roediger, H. L. III. (2003). Learning facts from fiction. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 519-536.
18. McCabe, D. P., & Smith, A. D. (2002). The effect of warnings on false memories in young and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 30, 1065-1077.
19. Nelson, T. O., & Narens, L. (1980). Norms of 300 general information questions: Accuracy of recall, latency of recall, and feeling-of-knowing ratings. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 338-368.
20. Prentice, D. A., Gerrig, R. J., & Bailis, D. S. (1997). What readers bring to the processing of fictional texts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 416-420.
21. Smith, J. A. (1993). Content learning: A third reason for using literature in teaching reading. Reading, Research and Instruction, 32, 64-71.
22. Tousignant, J. P., Hall, D., & Loftus, E. F. (1986). Discrepancy detection and vulnerability to misleading postevent information. Memory & Cognition, 14, 329-338.
23. Wheeler, S. C., Green, M. C., & Brock, T. C. (1999). Fictional narratives change beliefs: Replications of Prentice, Gerrig, and Bailis (1997) with mixed corroboration. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6, 136-141.