School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Memory. 2023 Jul;31(6):818-830. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2198327. Epub 2023 Apr 5.
The seminal Lost in the Mall study has been enormously influential in psychology and is still cited in legal cases. The current study directly replicated this paper, addressing methodological weaknesses including increasing the sample size fivefold and preregistering detailed analysis plans. Participants ( = 123) completed a survey and two interviews where they discussed real and fabricated childhood events, based on information provided by an older relative. We replicated the findings of the original study, coding 35% of participants as reporting a false memory for getting lost in a mall in childhood (compared to 25% in the original study). In an extension, we found that participants self-reported high rates of memories and beliefs for the fabricated event. Mock jurors were also highly likely to believe the fabricated event had occurred and that the participant was truly remembering the event, supporting the conclusions of the original study.
《迷失在商场里》这篇开创性的研究在心理学领域产生了巨大的影响，至今仍被引用在法律案件中。本研究直接复制了这篇论文，解决了包括将样本量增加五倍和预先注册详细分析计划在内的方法上的弱点。参与者（n=123）完成了一项调查和两次访谈，根据一位年长亲戚提供的信息，他们讨论了真实和编造的童年事件。我们复制了原始研究的发现，将 35%的参与者编码为报告在童年时在商场迷路有虚假记忆（而原始研究中为 25%）。作为扩展，我们发现参与者自己报告了对编造事件的高记忆和信念率。模拟陪审员也非常有可能相信编造的事件已经发生，参与者确实记得事件，这支持了原始研究的结论。
