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Do we plagiarize more often when the content of the to-be-remembered material is emotional?
Beaufort, Aline; Brédart, Serge; Perfect, Timothy J. et al.
2013SARMAC X Conference
 

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Keywords :
cryptomnesia; false memories; inadvertent plagiarism; emotion
Abstract :
[en] This study examined the impact of the emotional content on rates of cryptomnesia using the Brown and Murphy (1989) paradigm. In a first stage, dyads of young (mean age = 21.5 years) participants (n = 96, 48 females) were asked to generate alternately words corresponding to an emotional category (i.e.,“positive”, “negative” or “neutral”). One week later, participants were instructed (1) to recall the items that were generated by themselves and not by the other member of the dyad (Recall-Own task), (2) to generate four news items (Generate-New task) for each category and (3) to assign confidence ratings to their responses. About 17% of responses were plagiarisms in the recall-own task and the percentage almost reached 9% in the Generate-New task. No significant effects of valence were found on rates of plagiarism in Generate-New task nor on the confidence ratings assigned to the participants' responses. However, cryptomnesia was significantly higher for positive than neutral items while it did not differ significantly across negative and neutral items. Confidence ratings were lower for plagiarized responses than for correct responses but these ratings were higher for plagiarized items than for intrusions.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Beaufort, Aline ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie cognitive
Brédart, Serge ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie cognitive
Perfect, Timothy J.;  University of Plymouth, UK
Dehon, Hedwige ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie cognitive
Language :
English
Title :
Do we plagiarize more often when the content of the to-be-remembered material is emotional?
Publication date :
June 2013
Event name :
SARMAC X Conference
Event organizer :
SARMAC : the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Event place :
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event date :
26 - 29 juin 2013
Audience :
International
Name of the research project :
Examination of the effects of emotion on source monitoring efficiency in the context of inadvertent plagiarism.
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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