Peters Maarten J V, Horselenberg Robert, Jelicic Marko, Merckelbach Harald
Maastricht University, The Netherlands, Faculty of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Conscious Cogn. 2007 Mar;16(1):162-9. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.02.002. Epub 2006 Mar 30.
The present study examined whether individuals with full-blown memories of highly implausible events are prone to commit source monitoring errors. Participants reporting previous-life memories and those without such memories completed a false fame task. This task provides an index of source monitoring errors (i.e., misclassifying familiar non-famous names as famous names). Participants with previous-life memories had a greater tendency to judge the names of previously presented non-famous people as famous than control participants. The two groups did not differ in terms of correct recognition of new non-famous names and famous names. Although dissociation, cognitive failures, sleep-related experiences, depressive symptoms, and signs of psychological distress were all significantly higher in participants with previous-life memories than in controls, these variables did not predict the false fame illusion.
本研究考察了对极不可信事件有完整记忆的个体是否容易出现源记忆监测错误。报告有前世记忆的参与者和没有此类记忆的参与者完成了一项虚假名人任务。该任务提供了一个源记忆监测错误的指标(即把熟悉的非名人名字误分类为名人名字)。有前世记忆的参与者比对照组参与者更倾向于将之前呈现的非名人名字判断为名人。两组在正确识别新的非名人名字和名人名字方面没有差异。尽管有前世记忆的参与者在分离、认知失误、与睡眠相关的经历、抑郁症状和心理困扰迹象方面均显著高于对照组,但这些变量并不能预测虚假名人错觉。