Self-delivered misinformation - Merging the choice blindness and misinformation effect paradigms
Stille, Lotta ; Norin, Emelie and Sikström, Sverker LU
(2017)
In PLoS ONE
12(3).
- 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... (More)
- 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 stickers, which allowed alteration of their original answers. The participants gave justifications for their manipulated choices, and later their recollection of the original event was tested through another questionnaire. Choice blindness was created for a majority of the participants. A majority of the choice blind participants later changed their reported recollection of the event in line with the manipulations, whereas only a small minority of the participants in the control condition changed their recollection. This study provides new information about the misinformation effect, suggesting that this effect also can occur when misinformation is given immediately following presentation of the original stimuli, and about choice blindness and its effects on the recollections of events. The results suggest that memory blindness can be created when people inadvertently supply themselves with misleading information about an event, causing a change in their recollection. (Less)
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- author
- Stille, Lotta
; Norin, Emelie
and Sikström, Sverker
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-03-08
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- choice blindness, missinformation, effect
- in
- PLoS ONE
- volume
- 12
- issue
- 3
- publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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- scopus:85014954597
- wos:000396073700021
- pmid:28273151
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0173606
- language
- Swedish
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