Andrews Bernice, Brewin Chris R
Royal Holloway University of London London UK.
University College London London UK.
Appl Cogn Psychol. 2017 Jan-Feb;31(1):45-49. doi: 10.1002/acp.3285. Epub 2016 Oct 14.
Commentators have raised important points, including the relative contribution of false beliefs versus false memories and the issue of how findings in the laboratory can be generalized to the real world, which we have addressed here. However, some of the commentaries misrepresent what we said, make criticisms that are unfounded, or imply that our article should not have been published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. We relate these responses to a more general literature on the suppression of unwanted scientific findings and suggest that the study of false memory would be better served by more openness to alternative perspectives.
评论者提出了一些重要观点，包括错误信念与错误记忆的相对作用，以及实验室研究结果如何推广到现实世界的问题，我们在此已对这些问题进行了探讨。然而，一些评论歪曲了我们的观点，提出了毫无根据的批评，或者暗示我们的文章不应该发表在《应用认知心理学》上。我们将这些回应与关于压制不受欢迎的科学发现的更广泛文献联系起来，并建议对错误记忆的研究通过更开放地接受不同观点会得到更好的发展。
