Institute of Experimental Psychology, Department of Biological Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Learn Mem. 2013 Dec 16;21(1):5-8. doi: 10.1101/lm.033043.113.
Memory can be distorted by misleading post-event information. These memory distortions may have serious consequences, for example in eyewitness testimony. Many situations in which memory reports are solicited, and suggestive or misleading information is presented, are highly stressful for the respondent, yet little is known about how stress affects people's susceptibility to misinformation. Here, we exposed participants to a stressor or a control manipulation before they were presented misinformation about a previous event. We report that stressed participants endorsed misinformation in a subsequent memory test less often than control participants, suggesting that stress reduces distortions of memory by misleading information.
记忆可能会被误导性的事后信息扭曲。这些记忆扭曲可能会产生严重的后果，例如在目击证词中。在许多需要征集记忆报告并提供暗示性或误导性信息的情况下，受访者会承受巨大的压力，但人们对压力如何影响人们对错误信息的易感性知之甚少。在这里，我们在向参与者呈现有关先前事件的错误信息之前，让他们经历一个压力源或控制操作。我们报告说，在随后的记忆测试中，感到压力的参与者比对照组参与者更少地认可错误信息，这表明压力会减少误导性信息对记忆的扭曲。
