Examining the impact of warnings on eyewitness memory.

ABSTRACT: Prior research demonstrates that eyewitness memory is susceptible to misinformation. Specifically, memory for an original event can be contaminated by post-event information. Recently, we found that susceptibility to misinformation is reduced when mock eyewitnesses are given a warning about the threat of misinformation either before exposure to the post-event information (pre-warning) or after exposure to the post-event information (post-warning). In the present study, we investigated whether the timing of the warning (pre-warning vs. post-warning) and warning frequency (one warning vs. two warnings) impact memory accuracy as well as metacognitive assessments of memory accuracy. In Experiment 1, we found pre- and post-warning similarly decreased the negative impact of misinformation on mem

SUBMITTER: Torrance MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12480538 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature