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Evaluating Suggestibility To Additive And Contradictory Misinformation Following Explicit Error Detection In Younger And Older Adults, Mark Huff, Sharda Umanath
Evaluating Suggestibility To Additive And Contradictory Misinformation Following Explicit Error Detection In Younger And Older Adults, Mark Huff, Sharda Umanath
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In 2 experiments, we assessed age-related suggestibility to additive and contradictory misinformation (i.e., remembering of false details from an external source). After reading a fictional story, participants answered questions containing misleading details that were either additive (misleading details that supplemented an original event) or contradictory (errors that changed original details). On a final test, suggestibility was greater for additive than contradictory misinformation, and older adults endorsed fewer false contradictory details than younger adults. To mitigate suggestibility in Experiment 2, participants were warned about potential errors, instructed to detect errors, or instructed to detect errors after exposure to examples of additive …