The Suggestible Witness: Does Your Personality Make You Easier to Deceive?
(2025) PSYK12 20242Department of Psychology
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur personlighet och frågetyp påverkar vittnens noggrannhet i minnesförmågan. Studien syftar till att bidra till psykologisk forskning om vittnesminnen, med tanke på de allvarliga konsekvenser som minnesfel kan ha. Data samlades in genom två digitala enkäter som administrerades till vuxna deltagare. Enkäterna bestod av tre delar: ett personlighetstest, en video och ett test för minnesförmåga. Personlighet mättes med den korta versionen av BFI-2. Minnesförmågan bedömdes genom ett minnestest baserat på vad deltagarna såg i videon, som innehöll antingen öppna eller ledande frågor. Regression- och ANCOVA-analyser användes för att undersöka sambanden mellan personlighet, frågetyp och minnesförmåga.... (More)
- Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur personlighet och frågetyp påverkar vittnens noggrannhet i minnesförmågan. Studien syftar till att bidra till psykologisk forskning om vittnesminnen, med tanke på de allvarliga konsekvenser som minnesfel kan ha. Data samlades in genom två digitala enkäter som administrerades till vuxna deltagare. Enkäterna bestod av tre delar: ett personlighetstest, en video och ett test för minnesförmåga. Personlighet mättes med den korta versionen av BFI-2. Minnesförmågan bedömdes genom ett minnestest baserat på vad deltagarna såg i videon, som innehöll antingen öppna eller ledande frågor. Regression- och ANCOVA-analyser användes för att undersöka sambanden mellan personlighet, frågetyp och minnesförmåga. Resultaten indikerar att stress och ålder har svaga samband med minnesförmåga, men uppnår inte statistisk signifikans. Varken personlighet eller frågetyp har en signifikant effekt på minnesförmåga. Dessa resultat är viktiga för den pågående forskningen om de modererande faktorerna inom kognitiv psykologi och personlighetens inverkan. (Less)
- Abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate how personality and question type influence memory recall accuracy of witnesses. The study seeks to contribute to psychological research on eyewitness memory due to the substantial consequences it has, despite proving fallible. Data collection was done through two digital surveys given to adults. The surveys contained three segments—a personality assessment, a video, and a memory recall assessment. Personality was measured with the BFI-2 short form. Memory recall accuracy was evaluated through a recall test containing either open-ended or suggestive questions. Regression and ANCOVA analyses are used to examine the relationships of personality and question type on memory recall accuracy. The results... (More)
- The aim of this study is to investigate how personality and question type influence memory recall accuracy of witnesses. The study seeks to contribute to psychological research on eyewitness memory due to the substantial consequences it has, despite proving fallible. Data collection was done through two digital surveys given to adults. The surveys contained three segments—a personality assessment, a video, and a memory recall assessment. Personality was measured with the BFI-2 short form. Memory recall accuracy was evaluated through a recall test containing either open-ended or suggestive questions. Regression and ANCOVA analyses are used to examine the relationships of personality and question type on memory recall accuracy. The results suggest that stress and age have weak associations with memory recall but do not reach statistical significance. Personality and question type show no significant effects on recall accuracy. These findings are important to the ongoing research to discover cognitive psychology's moderating factors and personality's moderating powers. (Less)
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- Schneider, Annika LU
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- organization
- course
- PSYK12 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- eyewitness testimony, memory recall, suggestive questioning, personality, vittnesmål, minnesförmågan, ledande frågor, personlighet
- language
- English
- id
- 9187188
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- 2025-03-28 11:13:31
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- 2025-03-28 11:13:31
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abstract = {{The aim of this study is to investigate how personality and question type influence memory recall accuracy of witnesses. The study seeks to contribute to psychological research on eyewitness memory due to the substantial consequences it has, despite proving fallible. Data collection was done through two digital surveys given to adults. The surveys contained three segments—a personality assessment, a video, and a memory recall assessment. Personality was measured with the BFI-2 short form. Memory recall accuracy was evaluated through a recall test containing either open-ended or suggestive questions. Regression and ANCOVA analyses are used to examine the relationships of personality and question type on memory recall accuracy. The results suggest that stress and age have weak associations with memory recall but do not reach statistical significance. Personality and question type show no significant effects on recall accuracy. These findings are important to the ongoing research to discover cognitive psychology's moderating factors and personality's moderating powers.}},
author = {{Schneider, Annika}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Suggestible Witness: Does Your Personality Make You Easier to Deceive?}},
year = {{2025}},
}