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    Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime?

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    Authors
    Harkness, E.
    Paterson, H.
    Denson, T.
    Kemp, R.
    Mullan, Barbara
    Sainsbury, K.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Harkness, E. and Paterson, H. and Denson, T. and Kemp, R. and Mullan, B. and Sainsbury, K. 2015. Can Ego Depletion and Post-event Discussion Change the Way We Remember a Crime? Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 22 (2): pp. 172-183.
    Source Title
    Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
    DOI
    10.1080/13218719.2014.924384
    ISSN
    1321-8719
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24014
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    Abstract

    © 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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