MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'false memories'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883681&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F26028713%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EVivid-Print-Ads-Change-Your-Memory.htm Remember that fresh, buttery popcorn you had a few weeks ago? Maybe you didn’t really have it at all, and the memory was created by a magazine ad. Impossible, you say? Actually, new research shows that some print ads can be impactful enough to create a false memory of having tried a product that doesn’t [...] CommentsLyena, I would guess that the higher the fidelity of the ad, ... by Roger DooleyRoger, What an interesting study! I wonder, if the same ... by Lyena SolomonFor those who prefer to read about this in german: ... by Elisabeth StachuraRelated StoriesDoes Paper Outweigh Digital?Critical Thinking About NeuromarketingCloser to the Buy Button? (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883681 Tue, 31 May 2011 12:33:09 +0100 4883681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3772291&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F14909340%2F1lsbjl%2Fneuromarketing%7EThe-Invisible-Gorilla.htm Review: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons Before reading farther, watch this video if you haven’t already seen it:The Invisible Gorilla provides an interesting counterpoint to Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. While Gladwell sought to show that our minds can perform remarkable feats of judgment, often without [...] (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3772291 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:54:57 +0100 3772291 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3126667&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F29%2Fthe-situation-of-false-confessions%2F Ian Herbert, one of the very best translators of mind science research for popular audiences, has written an informative and disconcerting article, “The Psychology and Power of False Confessions” for the latest issue of The Observer.”  Here are some excerpts. * * * We know that false confessions do happen on a fairly regular basis. Because of advances in DNA evidence, the Innocence Project has been able to exonerate more than 200 people who had been wrongly convicted, 49 of whom had confessed to the crime we now know they didn’t commit. In a survey of 1,000 college students, four percent of those who had been interrogated by police said they gave a false confession. But Why? Why do people confess to crimes they didn’t commit? . . . . In the November 2004 issue of Psy... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3126667 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:01:17 +0100 3126667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2807312&cid=t_173986_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fsleep-reduces-false-memories.html A new study shows that sleep may improve the accuracy of your memory. Lead author Kimberly Fenn said that this is the first study to examine sleep and memory errors.The research involved college students who studied lists of words; 12 hours later they were tested. From a list with new words mixed in, they had to identify words that they had studied 12 hours earlier.Some students studied the original word list at 10 a.m.; they were tested at 10 p.m. after spending the day awake. Other students studied the words at night; they were tested in the morning after at least six hours of sleep.Results show that false recognition of non-studied words was reduced after sleep; there was no change in correct recognition of studied words.“It’s easy to muddle things in your mind,” Fenn said in a Mi... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2807312 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:41:00 +0100 2807312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2691540&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F12%2F7755%2F From Chautauqua Institution, here’s a worthwhile video in which renowned social psychologist, Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, discusses her remarkable research on human memory and the prevalence of false memories.  She also explains how her findings are relevant for everything from law to dieting. * * * For related Situationist posts “Emotional Content of True and False Memories – Abstract,” “Mood & Memory,” “The Situation of Confabulation,” “Emotional Content of True and False Memories – Abstract,” “The Situation of Memory,” and “Mistakes Were Made (but not by me).” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2691540 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:01:20 +0100 2691540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2021916&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F12%2F08%2Femotional-content-of-true-and-false-memories-abstract%2F Cara Laney and Elizabeth Loftus recently published their interesting article, Emotional Content of True and False Memories (16  Psychol. Press 500-516 (2008) on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * Many people believe that emotional memories (including those that arise in therapy) are particularly likely to represent true events because of their emotional content. But is emotional content a reliable indicator of memory accuracy? The current research assessed the emotional content of participants’ pre-existing (true) and manipulated (false) memories for childhood events. False memories for one of three emotional childhood events were planted using a suggestive manipulation and then compared, a long several subjective dimensions, with other participants’ true memories. On m... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2021916 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:14:11 +0100 2021916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1870672&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D303 No time to blog properly, but just wanted to draw your attention to a new paper (download via SSRN) on separating true from false memories. Here’s the abstract: Many people believe that emotional memories (including those that arise in therapy) are particularly likely to represent true events because of their emotional content. But is emotional content a reliable indicator of memory accuracy? The current research assessed the emotional content of participants’ pre-existing (true) and manipulated (false) memories for childhood events. False memories for one of three emotional childhood events were planted using a suggestive manipulation and then compared, a long several subjective dimensions, with other participants’ true memories. On most emotional dimensions (e.g., how ... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1870672 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:27:40 +0100 1870672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1305320&cid=t_173986_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D278 Sorry for the slow posting recently - real life is getting in the way of blogging at the moment., and is likely to continue to do so for some time yet, so please bear with me. Perhaps some of these items will give you your deception research fix in the meantime. If you’d like something to listen to during the daily commute why not download an interview with John F. Sullivan, author of Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner (h/t Antipolygraph Blog). Alternatively, try a short NPR Morning Edition segment on the neuropsychology of lying (h/t and see also The Frontal Cortex). The ever-interesting BPS Research Digest discusses a study of how toddlers tell a joke from a mistake. According to the researchers, Elena Hoicka and Merideth Gattis: …the ability to recognise humoro... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1305320 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:00:04 +0100 1305320