Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime?
© 2014 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Ego depletion refers to a state of temporarily reduced self-regulatory capacity. Regulating emotional and cognitive responses to witnessing a violent or distressing event likely induces ego depletion. The current st...
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| author | Harkness, E. Paterson, H. Denson, T. Kemp, R. Mullan, Barbara Sainsbury, K. |
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| description | © 2014 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Ego depletion refers to a state of temporarily reduced self-regulatory capacity. Regulating emotional and cognitive responses to witnessing a violent or distressing event likely induces ego depletion. The current study investigated whether experimentally induced ego depletion would increase susceptibility to memory conformity. Participants viewed a mock crime video and then engaged in a depleting task or a non-depleting control task, before either discussing the video with a confederate who introduced accurate and misleading information or engaging in an individual recall task. Replicating the memory conformity effect, engaging in a post-event discussion reinforced memory for both accurate and misleading information. However, when depleted participants engaged in post-event discussion, they recalled less of the accurate (but the same amount of misleading) post-event information than non-depleted participants. This research suggests that depleted witnesses may suffer the negative consequences of discussion (remembering incorrect post-event information) without the possible benefit of remembering correct information. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-240142017-09-13T13:55:44Z Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? Harkness, E. Paterson, H. Denson, T. Kemp, R. Mullan, Barbara Sainsbury, K. © 2014 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Ego depletion refers to a state of temporarily reduced self-regulatory capacity. Regulating emotional and cognitive responses to witnessing a violent or distressing event likely induces ego depletion. The current study investigated whether experimentally induced ego depletion would increase susceptibility to memory conformity. Participants viewed a mock crime video and then engaged in a depleting task or a non-depleting control task, before either discussing the video with a confederate who introduced accurate and misleading information or engaging in an individual recall task. Replicating the memory conformity effect, engaging in a post-event discussion reinforced memory for both accurate and misleading information. However, when depleted participants engaged in post-event discussion, they recalled less of the accurate (but the same amount of misleading) post-event information than non-depleted participants. This research suggests that depleted witnesses may suffer the negative consequences of discussion (remembering incorrect post-event information) without the possible benefit of remembering correct information. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24014 10.1080/13218719.2014.924384 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Harkness, E. Paterson, H. Denson, T. Kemp, R. Mullan, Barbara Sainsbury, K. Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? |
| title | Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? |
| title_full | Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? |
| title_fullStr | Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? |
| title_short | Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? |
| title_sort | can ego depletion and post-event discussion change the way we remember a crime? |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24014 |