Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7274749 | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | 2016 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Maltreated (n = 26) and non-maltreated (n = 31) 7- to 12-year-old children were tested on the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false memory task using emotional and neutral word lists. True recall was significantly better for non-maltreated than maltreated children regardless of list valence. The proportion of false recall for neutral lists was comparable regardless of maltreatment status. However, maltreated children showed a significantly higher false recall rate for the emotional lists than non-maltreated children. Together, these results provide new evidence that maltreated children could be more prone to false memory illusions for negatively valenced information than their non-maltreated counterparts.
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Authors
Gunn Astrid Baugerud, Mark L. Howe, Svein Magnussen, Annika Melinder,