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If the studies are based on asking people if they remember the false event, they are susceptible to the same critique.
by canjobear 3y ago
If the studies are based on asking people if they remember the false event, they are susceptible to the same critique.
- tzs 3y agoI recall studies (...unless my recollection is a false memory!) where the subjects didn't know they were in an experiment. For example in one I remember the researchers got the parents and older adult siblings at a family gathering to start talking about funny things that happened when the kids were growing up. That included a made up story about when they went to one of the younger adult siblings' third grade school play, where something funny happened involving him. Much later the researchers managed to arrange for that person to end up in a conversation that turned to elementary school plays, and that person on their own brought up their third grade play and the funny incident, and even added details that were not in the story told at the gathering. When I said the story was made up, I didn't mean that what was made up was that something funny happened to him during the play. In fact his third grade class never had a play, nor did any of his other elementary school classes. Nor he did he attend any class plays from other classes.
- emodendroket 3y agoSome do; others involve more subtle tricks like having subjects watch a video of a car crash, then using different wording a week later to ask them about details of the video (to spoil the surprise, the wording of the questions significantly alters recollection of what happened in the video).
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoSo is the legal justice system, witness testimony, job interviews, etc. It does not matter if they lied, if lies are indistringyishable from truth. The conclusion holds.