Self-delivered misinformation - Merging the choice blindness and misinformation effect paradigms.

ABSTRACT: Choice blindness is the failure to detect a discrepancy between a choice and its outcome. The misinformation effect occurs when the recollection of an event changes because new, misleading information about the event is received. The purpose of this study was to merge the choice blindness and misinformation effect paradigms, and thus examine whether choice blindness can be created for individuals' recollections of a witnessed event, and whether this will affect their later recollections of the event. Thus, as a way of delivering misinformation the participants ostensibly became their own source of the misleading information. The participants watched a short film and filled out a questionnaire about events shown in the film. Some of their answers were then manipulated using reattachable sti

SUBMITTER: Stille L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5342302 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature