@article{ref1,
title="Can ego depletion and post-event discussion change the way we remember a crime?",
journal="Psychiatry, psychology and law",
year="2015",
author="Harkness, Emily L. and Paterson, Helen M. and Denson, Tom and Kemp, Richard I. and Mullan, Barbara and Sainsbury, Kirby",
volume="22",
number="2",
pages="172-183",
abstract="Ego depletion refers to a state of temporarily reduced self-regulatory capacity. Regulating emotional and cognitive responses to witnessing a violent or distressing event likely induces ego depletion. The current study investigated whether experimentally induced ego depletion would increase susceptibility to memory conformity. Participants viewed a mock crime video and then engaged in a depleting task or a non-depleting control task, before either discussing the video with a confederate who introduced accurate and misleading information or engaging in an individual recall task. Replicating the memory conformity effect, engaging in a post-event discussion reinforced memory for both accurate and misleading information. However, when depleted participants engaged in post-event discussion, they recalled less of the accurate (but the same amount of misleading) post-event information than non-depleted participants. This research suggests that depleted witnesses may suffer the negative consequences of discussion (remembering incorrect post-event information) without the possible benefit of remembering correct information.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1321-8719",
doi="10.1080/13218719.2014.924384",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2014.924384"
}