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False Memories Turned Against the Self

False Memories Turned Against the Self COMMENTARIES Saul M. Kassin Department of Psychology Williams College Memory construction is a phenomenon that has be- abuse diagnosis and then supports that assessment by manipulating the patient's informational and emotional come intuitive to the experimental psychologist. In recent years, researchers have found that misleading state. This heavy-handed type of influence closely re- postevent information can alter actual or reported sembles the thought-reform or "brainwashing" tech- memories of observed visual events (Loftus, Miller, & niques previously seen in Korean War prison camps and certain religious cults. In the alternative "narrative Burns, 1978; McCloskey & Zaragoza, 1985), particu- model," the patient primarily leads the therapist, creat- larly among young children (Ceci & Bruck, 1993) and ing a trauma story from the past as a way to understand adults under hypnosis (McConkey & Sheehan, 1995). or lay blame for his or her unhappy current state. Recent studies suggest that it is possible as well to To evaluate these two models, de Rivera interviewed implant false recollections of words in a list (Roediger four FMS victims, or retractors, concerning their back- & McDermott, 1995) and isolated childhood experi- grounds, the memory-induction process they under- ences-such as being lost in a shopping mall-that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

False Memories Turned Against the Self

Kassin, Saul M.
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 8 (4): 3 – Dec 1, 1997
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COMMENTARIES Saul M. Kassin Department of Psychology Williams College Memory construction is a phenomenon that has be- abuse diagnosis and then supports that assessment by manipulating the patient's informational and emotional come intuitive to the experimental psychologist. In recent years, researchers have found that misleading state. This heavy-handed type of influence closely re- postevent information can alter actual or reported sembles the thought-reform or "brainwashing" tech- memories of observed visual events (Loftus, Miller, & niques previously seen in Korean War prison camps and certain religious cults. In the alternative "narrative Burns, 1978; McCloskey & Zaragoza, 1985), particu- model," the patient primarily leads the therapist, creat- larly among young children (Ceci & Bruck, 1993) and ing a trauma story from the past as a way to understand adults under hypnosis (McConkey & Sheehan, 1995). or lay blame for his or her unhappy current state. Recent studies suggest that it is possible as well to To evaluate these two models, de Rivera interviewed implant false recollections of words in a list (Roediger four FMS victims, or retractors, concerning their back- & McDermott, 1995) and isolated childhood experi- grounds, the memory-induction process they under- ences-such as being lost in a shopping mall-that

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