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Emotional Content of True and False Memories
Memory, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 500-516, 2008 | UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2008-1818 Pages Posted: 3 Oct 2008 Last revised: 11 Sep 2010
Cara Laney | Reed College, Psychology
Elizabeth F. Loftus | University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social Behavior; University of California, Irvine School of Law
Date Written: September 8, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210802065939Abstract
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 ...