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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > imagination inflation effect

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imagination inflation effect  

Definition

  • A memory error where people are more likely to believe they experienced hypothetical events after imagining them.

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  • • Calvillo, D. P., Vasquez, A. N., & Pesavento, A. (2019). Imagination inflation effects are unrelated across two imagination inflation tasks. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6(1), 90–98. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000178

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208–214. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212420

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

  • • Garry, M., Sharman, S. J., Wade, K. A., Hunt, M. J., & Smith, P. J. (2001). Imagination inflation is a fact, not an artifact: A reply to Pezdek and Eddy. Memory & Cognition, 29(5), 719–729. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200474

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Pezdek, K., & Eddy, R. M. (2001). Imagination inflation: A statistical artifact of regression toward the mean. Memory & Cognition, 29(5), 707–718. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200473

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: open

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-PM7RPRWP-Q

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