This article reviews research using the Deese/Roediger—McDermott (DRM) associative
memory illusion, whereby people falsely remember words that were not presented. This …

False memories have been studied by cognitive psychologists for decades, dating at least to
the pioneering studies of Bartlett (1932). False memories are important theoretically …

Abstract Information that initially is presumed to be correct, but that is later retracted or
corrected, often continues to influence memory and reasoning. This occurs even if the …

Elevated power increases the psychological distance one feels from others, and this
distance, according to construal level theory (Y. Trope & N. Liberman, 2003), should lead to …

Abstract In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, subjects study lists of words
that are designed to elicit the recall of an associatively related critical item. The 55 lists we …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …

There has been unprecedented interest in recent years in questions pertaining to accuracy
and distortion in memory. This interest, catalyzed in part by real-life problems, marks a …

The last decade has seen a flurry of experimental research into the neurocognitive
underpinnings of illusory memories. Using simple materials and tests (eg, recalling words or …

Roediger and McDermott (1995) induced false recall and false recognition for words that
were not presented in lists. They had subjects study 24 lists of 15 words that were associates …

This article reviews the major empirical results and theoretical issues from over 20 years of
research on people's acceptance of false information about recently experienced events …