TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Can ego depletion and post-event discussion change the way we remember a crime?
JO  - Psychiatry, psychology and law
A1  - Harkness, Emily L.
A1  - Paterson, Helen M.
A1  - Denson, Tom
A1  - Kemp, Richard I.
A1  - Mullan, Barbara
A1  - Sainsbury, Kirby
SP  - 172
EP  - 183
VL  - 22
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1321-8719
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2014.924384
ID  - ref1
ER  -