Mazzoni G A, Loftus E F, Kirsch I
Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 07079, USA.
J Exp Psychol Appl. 2001 Mar;7(1):51-9.
Three experiments investigated the malleability of perceived plausibility and the subjective likelihood of occurrence of plausible and implausible events among participants who had no recollection of experiencing them. In Experiment 1, a plausibility-enhancing manipulation (reading accounts of the occurrence of events) combined with a personalized suggestion increased the perceived plausibility of the implausible event, as well as participants' ratings of the likelihood that they had experienced it. Plausibility and likelihood ratings were uncorrelated. Subsequent studies showed that the plausibility manipulation alone was sufficient to increase likelihood ratings but only if the accounts that participants read were set in a contemporary context. These data suggest that false autobiographical beliefs can be induced in clinical and forensic contexts even for initially implausible events.
三项实验研究了在没有经历过相关事件记忆的参与者中，感知合理性的可塑性以及合理和不合理事件发生的主观可能性。在实验1中，一种增强合理性的操纵（阅读事件发生的描述）与个性化建议相结合，提高了不合理事件的感知合理性，以及参与者对自己经历过该事件可能性的评分。合理性评分和可能性评分不相关。后续研究表明，仅合理性操纵就足以提高可能性评分，但前提是参与者阅读的描述设定在当代背景下。这些数据表明，即使是最初不合理的事件，在临床和法医背景下也可能诱导出错误的自传体信念。
