False and distorted memories / edited by Robert Nash and James Ost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nash, Robert, editor.

Ost, James, editor.

Series:

Current issues in memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

ix, 165 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Our memories shape how we think about the past, how we plan for the future, and how we think about ourselves. Yet our memories are also constantly being reinvented: we often remember our experiences differently from how they truly happened, and can even remember experiences that never happened at all. False and Distorted Memories provides an overview of recent and ongoing developments in the science of false memory. World-leading researchers unpick questions about flawed recollections, discussing issues as varied as the reliability of highly emotional memories, why we sometimes begin to remember fictional experiences that we have deliberately fabricated, and what happens when we stop believing our memories. Each chapter demonstrates how memory science has furthered our understanding of these important questions by exploring theoretical ideas and psychological research methods that underpin their investigations. Edited by Robert Nash and James Ost, this volume offers an international and up-to-date perspective on false and distorted memories. The volume also draws attention to the broad range of real-life contexts in which such distortions might arise and their potential consequences. False and Distorted Memories illustrates the ease with which memory can be contaminated and the power of the resulting memory errors, providing an integral text for researchers and students interested in the psychology of memory. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: false and distorted memories / Robert A. Nash & James Ost

(mis)remembering negative emotional experiences / Jacinta Oulton & Melanie K. T. Takarangi

When children are the worst and best eyewitnesses : factors behind the development of false memory / Henry Otgaar, Mark L. Howe, Nathalie Brackmann, & Jianqin Wang

Photos and memory / Kimberley A. Wade, Sophie J. Nightingale, & Melissa F. Colloff

The past is a social construction : susceptibility to social influence in (MIS)remembering / Hartmut Blank, Eva Walther, & Simon D. Isemann

Forced fabrication and false eyewitness memories / Maria S. Zaragoza, Patrick Rich, Eric Rindal, and Rachel DeFranco

Stories and movies can mislead : why biloxi (mississippi) sometimes relocates to tennessee after reading The Great gatsby / Elizabeth J. Marsh & Hillary G. Mullet

Cognitive fluency and false memories / Eryn J. Newman

Nonbelieved memories : a review of findings and theoretical implications / Alan Scoboria, Giuliana Mazzoni, & Chantal Boucher

The positive side of memory illusions : new findings about how false memories facilitate reasoning and problem solving / Mark L. Howe, Emma Threadgold, Samantha Wilkinson, Sarah R. Garner, &

Linden j. ball

False memories matter : the repercussions that follow the development of false memory / Cara Laney & Elizabeth F. Loftus

Concluding remarks : malleable knowledge about malleable memories / James Ost and Robert A. Nash.

ISBN:

9781138832015

1138832014

9781138832022

1138832022

OCLC:

956775172