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Article: Imagining a false alibi impairs concealed memory detection with the autobiographical Implicit Association Test
Title | Imagining a false alibi impairs concealed memory detection with the autobiographical Implicit Association Test |
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Keywords | memory imagination autobiographical Implicit Association Test truth |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.apa.org/journals/xap.html |
Citation | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2020, v. 26 n. 2, p. 266-282 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Imagining counterfactual versions of past events can distort memory. In 3 experiments, we examined whether imagining a false alibi for a mock crime would make suspects appear less guilty in a concealed memory detection test, the autobiographical Implicit Association Test (aIAT), which aims to determine which of 2 autobiographical events are true. First, 'guilty' participants completed a mock crime, whereas 'innocent' participants completed an innocent act. Next, some of the guilty participants were asked to imagine a false alibi that corresponded to the innocent act. Finally, all groups completed the aIAT. Across experiments. we varied the type of aIAT used and also compared the effectiveness of the false alibi countermeasure when only imagined once, versus when it was repeatedly imagined over a week-long period. The aIAT accurately detected the mock crime as true for guilty participants without a false alibi. but was consistently less able to detect the mock crime as true for guilty participants who had imagined a false alibi. The findings suggest that if guilty suspects fabricate an alibi, this may create a memory for the alibi that appears to be true based on the aIAT, which is problematic for its real-life applications in concealed memory detection. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290077 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.010 |
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dc.contributor.author | Dhammapeera, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hu, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bergström, ZM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-22T08:21:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-22T08:21:47Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2020, v. 26 n. 2, p. 266-282 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1076-898X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290077 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Imagining counterfactual versions of past events can distort memory. In 3 experiments, we examined whether imagining a false alibi for a mock crime would make suspects appear less guilty in a concealed memory detection test, the autobiographical Implicit Association Test (aIAT), which aims to determine which of 2 autobiographical events are true. First, 'guilty' participants completed a mock crime, whereas 'innocent' participants completed an innocent act. Next, some of the guilty participants were asked to imagine a false alibi that corresponded to the innocent act. Finally, all groups completed the aIAT. Across experiments. we varied the type of aIAT used and also compared the effectiveness of the false alibi countermeasure when only imagined once, versus when it was repeatedly imagined over a week-long period. The aIAT accurately detected the mock crime as true for guilty participants without a false alibi. but was consistently less able to detect the mock crime as true for guilty participants who had imagined a false alibi. The findings suggest that if guilty suspects fabricate an alibi, this may create a memory for the alibi that appears to be true based on the aIAT, which is problematic for its real-life applications in concealed memory detection. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Psychological Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.apa.org/journals/xap.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied | - |
dc.rights | ©American Psychological Association, [Year]. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: [ARTICLE DOI] | - |
dc.subject | memory | - |
dc.subject | imagination | - |
dc.subject | autobiographical Implicit Association Test | - |
dc.subject | truth | - |
dc.title | Imagining a false alibi impairs concealed memory detection with the autobiographical Implicit Association Test | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Hu, X: xqhu2716@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Hu, X=rp02182 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1037/xap0000250 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 31556646 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 316315 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 266 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 282 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000538466400005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1076-898X | - |