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Li C, Otgaar H, Battista F, Muris P, Zhang Y. The effect of mood on shaping belief and recollection following false feedback. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2024; 88:1638-1652. [PMID: 38581439 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-024-01957-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024]
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The current study examined how mood affects the impact of false feedback on belief and recollection. In a three-session experiment, participants first watched 40 neutral mini videos, which were accompanied by music to induce either a positive or negative mood, or no music. Following a recognition test, they received false feedback to reduce belief in the occurrence of the events displayed in some of the videos (Session 2). This was followed by an immediate memory test and a delayed memory assessment one week later (Session 3). The results revealed that participants in negative mood reported higher belief scores compared to those in positive moods, despite an overall decline in belief scores for all groups following the false feedback. Notably, individuals in negative moods exhibited less reduction in their belief scores after encountering challenges, thereby maintaining a higher accuracy in their testimonies. Over time, a reduction in the clarity of participants' memory recall was observed, which correspondingly reduced their testimony accuracy. This study thus indicates that mood states play a role in shaping belief and memory recall under the influence of false feedback.
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- Chunlin Li
- Faculty of Law and Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium.
- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Faculty of Law and Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Winter B, Marghetis T. Multimodality matters in numerical communication. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1130777. [PMID: 37564312 PMCID: PMC10411739 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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Modern society depends on numerical information, which must be communicated accurately and effectively. Numerical communication is accomplished in different modalities-speech, writing, sign, gesture, graphs, and in naturally occurring settings it almost always involves more than one modality at once. Yet the modalities of numerical communication are often studied in isolation. Here we argue that, to understand and improve numerical communication, we must take seriously this multimodality. We first discuss each modality on its own terms, identifying their commonalities and differences. We then argue that numerical communication is shaped critically by interactions among modalities. We boil down these interactions to four types: one modality can amplify the message of another; it can direct attention to content from another modality (e.g., using a gesture to guide attention to a relevant aspect of a graph); it can explain another modality (e.g., verbally explaining the meaning of an axis in a graph); and it can reinterpret a modality (e.g., framing an upwards-oriented trend as a bad outcome). We conclude by discussing how a focus on multimodality raises entirely new research questions about numerical communication.
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- Bodo Winter
- Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, United States
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Johnstone KL, Blades M, Martin C. No gesture too small: An investigation into the ability of gestural information to mislead eyewitness accounts by 5- to 8-year-olds. Mem Cognit 2023:10.3758/s13421-023-01396-5. [PMID: 36995574 PMCID: PMC10368558 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-023-01396-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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The accuracy of eyewitness interviews has legal and clinical implications within the criminal justice system. Leading verbal suggestions have been shown to give rise to false memories and inaccurate testimonies in children, but only a small body of research exists regarding non-verbal communication. The present study examined whether 5- to 8-year-olds in the UK could be misled about their memory of an event through exposure to leading gestural information, which suggested an incorrect response, using a variety of question and gesture types. Results showed that leading gestures significantly corrupted participants' memory compared to the control group (MD = 0.60, p < 0.001), with participants being misled by at least one question nearly three-quarters of the time. Questions about peripheral details, and gestures that were more visible and expressive, increased false memory further, with even subtle gestures demonstrating a strong misleading influence. We discuss the implications of these findings for the guidelines governing eyewitness interviews.
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- Kirsty L Johnstone
- Department of Psychology, Cathedral Court, The University of Sheffield, 1 Vicar Lane, Sheffield, S1 2LT, UK.
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- Department of Psychology, Cathedral Court, The University of Sheffield, 1 Vicar Lane, Sheffield, S1 2LT, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Cathedral Court, The University of Sheffield, 1 Vicar Lane, Sheffield, S1 2LT, UK
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Meyer KR, Blades M, Krähenbühl S. The Gestural Misinformation Effect in Child Interviews in Switzerland. JOURNAL OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10919-022-00419-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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AbstractGestures embody concepts in the form of universal representations. Researchers have highlighted that social communication often embodies nonverbal behavior. A forensic interviewer’s nonverbal behavior, such as gesturing during an interview, could communicate misleading information and may cause inaccuracies in the interviewees’ testimonies. The current study was conducted in Switzerland and included 108 child participants, in three age groups (a younger sample aged 6–9 years, n = 32) (a middle sample aged 10–11 years, n = 40) and an older sample aged 12–13 years, n = 36). Participants viewed a video and completed an interview about the video, individually, immediately after. During the questioning, the interviewer deliberately misled the interviewees with nonverbal gestures. The results showed that 95 children were misled by at least one gesture and that gestures led to a significant decrease in accuracy. Children also incorporated misleading gestures and reported false information; adding to existing evidence that misinformation can also be communicated through nonverbal gestures. Our findings demonstrate the negative influence of misleading gestures in child eyewitness interviews and provide more evidence for the robustness of the gestural misinformation effect, reported in previous research.
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Influencing choices with conversational primes: How a magic trick unconsciously influences card choices. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:17675-17679. [PMID: 32661142 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000682117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Past research demonstrates that unconscious primes can affect people's decisions. However, these free choice priming paradigms present participants with very few alternatives. Magicians' forcing techniques provide a powerful tool to investigate how natural implicit primes can unconsciously influence decisions with multiple alternatives. We used video and live performances of the mental priming force. This technique uses subtle nonverbal and verbal conversational primes to influence spectators to choose the three of diamonds. Our results show that a large number of participants chose the target card while reporting feeling free and in control of their choice. Even when they were influenced by the primes, participants typically failed to give the reason for their choice. These results show that naturally embedding primes within a person's speech and gestures effectively influenced people's decision making. This raises the possibility that this form of mind control could be used to effectively manipulate other mental processes.
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Dodier O, Denault V. The Griffiths Question Map: A Forensic Tool For Expert Witnesses' Assessments of Witnesses and Victims' Statements. J Forensic Sci 2018; 63:266-274. [PMID: 28240349 DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2016] [Revised: 01/23/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Expert witnesses are sometimes asked to assess the reliability of young witnesses and victims' statements because of their high susceptibility to memory biases. This technical note aims to highlight the relevance of the Griffiths Question Map (GQM) as a professional forensic tool to improve expert witnesses' assessments of young witnesses and victims' testimonies. To do so, this innovative question type assessment grid was used to proceed to an in-depth analysis of the interview of an alleged 13-year-old victim of a sexual assault and two rapes. Overall, the GQM stressed how the interview was mainly conducted in an inappropriate manner. The results are examined with regard to scientific knowledge on young witnesses and victims' memory. Finally, it is argued that expert witnesses in inquisitorial systems might use the GQM while encountering difficulties to fulfill the legal standards for expert evidence in adversarial systems because of the lack of studies regarding its reliability.
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- Olivier Dodier
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LAPSCO, 34 Avenue Carnot, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France.,Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie - Laboratoire Travail et Cognition, Maison de la Recherche, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058, Toulouse cedex 9, France
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- Université de Montréal, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, PO Box 6128 Centre-ville STN Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada.,Centre d'études en Sciences de la Communication non Verbale, 7401, Hochelaga, Montréal, QC, H1N 3M5, Canada
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Hands Shaping Communication: From Gestures to Signs. STUDIES IN APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND RATIONAL ETHICS 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66881-9_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Tompkins ML, Woods AT, Aimola Davies AM. The Phantom Vanish Magic Trick: Investigating the Disappearance of a Non-existent Object in a Dynamic Scene. Front Psychol 2016; 7:950. [PMID: 27493635 PMCID: PMC4954827 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2016] [Accepted: 06/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Drawing inspiration from sleight-of-hand magic tricks, we developed an experimental paradigm to investigate whether magicians’ misdirection techniques could be used to induce the misperception of “phantom” objects. While previous experiments investigating sleight-of-hand magic tricks have focused on creating false assumptions about the movement of an object in a scene, our experiment investigated creating false assumptions about the presence of an object in a scene. Participants watched a sequence of silent videos depicting a magician performing with a single object. Following each video, participants were asked to write a description of the events in the video. In the final video, participants watched the Phantom Vanish Magic Trick, a novel magic trick developed for this experiment, in which the magician pantomimed the actions of presenting an object and then making it magically disappear. No object was presented during the final video. The silent videos precluded the use of false verbal suggestions, and participants were not asked leading questions about the objects. Nevertheless, 32% of participants reported having visual impressions of non-existent objects. These findings support an inferential model of perception, wherein top-down expectations can be manipulated by the magician to generate vivid illusory experiences, even in the absence of corresponding bottom-up information.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of OxfordOxford, UK; The Australian National University, CanberraACT, Australia
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Handmade Memories: The Robustness of the Gestural Misinformation Effect in Children’s Eyewitness Interviews. JOURNAL OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10919-015-0210-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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