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Title: A robust preference for cheap-and-easy strategies over reliable strategies when verifying personal memories.
Authors: Nash, Robert A. (AUTHOR), Wade, Kimberley A. (AUTHOR), Garry, Maryanne (AUTHOR), Adelman, James S. (AUTHOR)
Source: Memory. Aug2017, Vol. 25 Issue 7, p890-899. 10p.
Subjects: Autobiographical memory, Decision making, Statistical reliability, Early memories, Psychiatric errors
Abstract: People depend on various sources of information when trying to verify their autobiographical memories. Yet recent research shows that people prefer to use cheap-and-easy verification strategies, even when these strategies are not reliable. We examined the robustness of thischeap strategy bias, with scenarios designed to encourage greater emphasis on source reliability. In three experiments, subjects described real (Experiments 1 and 2) or hypothetical (Experiment 3) autobiographical events, and proposed strategies they might use to verify their memories of those events. Subjects also rated the reliability, cost, and the likelihood that they would use each strategy. In line with previous work, we found that the preference for cheap information held when people described how they would verify childhood or recent memories (Experiment 1), personally important or trivial memories (Experiment 2), and even when the consequences of relying on incorrect information could be significant (Experiment 3). Taken together, our findings fit with an account of source monitoring in which the tendency to trust one’s own autobiographical memories can discourage people from systematically testing or accepting strong disconfirmatory evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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