title: The influence of confabulations about the reasons for the choice on the formation of false memories
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metadata.value: Gershkovich, Valeria A.
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metadata.value: Tikhonov, Roman V.
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metadata.value: Bystrova, Ekaterina E.
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metadata.value: Lvova, Olga V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-12-20T21:37:35Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12-20T21:37:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Gershkovich V. A., Tikhonov R. V., Bystrova E. E., Lvova O. L. The influence of confabulations about the reasons for the choice on the formation of false memories. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2023, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 566–585. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2023.409 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2023.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44541
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metadata.value: The article examines the causes of the choice blindness aftereffect on the formation of false
  memories. Several studies have shown that when individuals provide reasons for a choice they did not actually make, their memories shift towards the invented justifications (confabulations).
  The aim of this study is to contrast the explanation of the mnemonic aftereffect
  of choice blindness in terms of cognitive dissonance theory with explanations in terms of
  recency and verbalization effects. In the experiment, we compared two situations: one where
  participants justified evaluations contradicting their initial opinions, and another where they
  justified evaluations but attributed them to their partners’ opinions. It was hypothesized that
  if self-justification induces cognitive dissonance, participants who confabulated reasons for
  choices believed to be their own would exhibit more false memories regarding the original
  choice compared to those who believed they justified their partner’s opinion. The first stage
  involved participants evaluating the IQ of women based on their photos. In the second stage
  they had to explain the reasons for the evaluations (either considering it their own choice
  or partner’s). Half of the evaluations submitted for explanations contradicted the previously
  issued ones (low evaluations changed to high ones and vice versa). In the third stage, the
  participants had to remember the original evaluation. A change in the pole of perceived IQ
  judgments was measured. The results confirmed the presence of the choice blindness effect.
  The effect of false memories was found only in the group that considered the presented evaluations
  to be their own opinions.
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metadata.value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 21-18-00429 “Cognitive
  mechanisms of multimodal information processing: text type & type of recipient”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: choice blindness
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metadata.value: confabulations
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metadata.value: misinformation
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metadata.value: false memories
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive dissonance
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: recency effect
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metadata.value: verbalization
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metadata.value: The influence of confabulations about the reasons for the choice on the formation of false memories
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metadata.value: Article
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