Forgetting having denied: The “amnesic” consequences of denial.
The concept of denial has its roots in psychoanalysis. Denial has been assumed to be effective in blocking unwanted memories. In two experiments, we report that denial has unique consequences for remembering. In our two experiments, participants viewed a video of a theft, and half of the participant...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 520 - 530 |
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May2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=129511163&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 129511163 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2018 vid: 46 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 129511163 10.3758/s13421-017-0781-5 ppf: 520 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 502KB tig: atl: Forgetting having denied: The “amnesic” consequences of denial. aug: au: Otgaar, Henry Romeo, Tameka Ramakers, Niki Howe, Mark L. affil: Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands City University of London, London, UK Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Section Forensic Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands su: Deception Denial (Psychology) Memory Psychoanalysis Recognition (Psychology) Repression (Psychology) Theft Task performance Amnesia Audiovisual materials Experimental design sug: subj: Deception Denial (Psychology) Memory Psychoanalysis Recognition (Psychology) Repression (Psychology) Theft Task performance Amnesia Audiovisual materials Experimental design keyword: Denial Forgetting Repression Denial Forgetting Repression ab: The concept of denial has its roots in psychoanalysis. Denial has been assumed to be effective in blocking unwanted memories. In two experiments, we report that denial has unique consequences for remembering. In our two experiments, participants viewed a video of a theft, and half of the participants had to deny seeing certain details in the video, whereas the other half had to tell the truth. One day later, all participants were given either a source-monitoring recognition or a recall task. In these tasks, they were instructed to indicate (1) whether they could remember talking about certain details and (2) whether they could recollect seeing those details in the video. In both experiments, we found that denial made participants forget that they had talked about these details, while leaving memory for the video itself unaffected. This denial-induced forgetting was evident for both the source-monitoring recognition and recall tests. Furthermore, when we asked participants after the experiment whether they could still not remember talking about these details, those who had to deny were most likely to report that they had forgotten talking about the details. In contrast to a widely held belief, we show that denial does not impair memory for the experienced stimuli, but that it has a unique ability to undermine memory for what has been talked about. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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