目击事件对目击证人记忆的错误信息效应研究

Misinformation Effects in Eyewitness Memories of Original Events

通过操作误导事件后的信息这一变量,考察有无误导事件后的信息对目击证人原始事件记忆效果的影响,以及目击证人对自己回答的自信心方面的影响。实验结果表明:(1)误导事件后的信息使被试对原始事件产生错误记忆;(2)误导事件后的信息对主体问题没有影响,但对情境问题的影响达到显著水平;(3)是否接受误导事件后的信息与目击证人的自信之间没有相关,但是不同的问题类型以及是否回答正确,与目击证人的自信有密切关系。

Explored the misleading postevent information influence to eyewitness memories of original events and eyewitness confidence of their respondence, by studied the misleading postevent information effect of eyewitness memories. The main results were： （a） misleading postevent information produced the subjects＇ false memories of the original events; and （b） it effected the questions but not the context ones; （c） there was no correlation between the misleading postevent information and eyewitness confidence, but there was a tightly correlation between the question types and respondence.