Skip to main content

Cognitive psychology of human memory (CogMemo thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

  • Help
align
annotate
download

Concept information

phenomenon > memory phenomenon > inoculation effect

Preferred term

inoculation effect  

Definition

  • A memory phenomenon observed when the inclusion of misinformation that blatantly contradicts the facts protects against the effects of other, subtler misinformation on memory (Loftus, 1979).

Broader concept

Related concepts

Belongs to group

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Loftus, E. F. (1979). Reactions to blatantly contradictory information. Memory & Cognition, 7(5), 368–374. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196941

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • O’Donnell, R., & Chan, J. C. K. (2025). Does blatantly contradictory information reduce the misinformation effect? A Registered Report replication of Loftus (1979). Legal and Criminological Psychology, 30(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12242

    • Document type: empirical study

    , replication

    • Access: open

    • Dataset reference: O’Donnell, R., & Chan, J. C. (2023, April 9). A Pre-registered Replication of Loftus (1979). https://osf.io/ckbr9

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Moderator variable(s)

  • • Delay : the inoculation effect is eliminated when the blatantly contradictory misinformation is presented after the subtler misinformation (Loftus, 1979).

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-HSGJ0HH7-0

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 6/19/23, last modified 10/1/25