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My Command, My Act: Observation Inflation in Face-To-Face Interactions
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-170739
- When observing another agent performing simple actions, these actions are systematically remembered as one’s own after a brief period of time. Such observation inflation has been documented as a robust phenomenon in studies in which participants passively observed videotaped actions. Whether observation inflation also holds for direct, face-to-face interactions is an open question that we addressed in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants commanded the experimenter to carry out certain actions, and they indeed reported false memoriesWhen observing another agent performing simple actions, these actions are systematically remembered as one’s own after a brief period of time. Such observation inflation has been documented as a robust phenomenon in studies in which participants passively observed videotaped actions. Whether observation inflation also holds for direct, face-to-face interactions is an open question that we addressed in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants commanded the experimenter to carry out certain actions, and they indeed reported false memories of self-performance in a later memory test. The effect size of this inflation effect was similar to passive observation as confirmed by Experiment 2. These findings suggest that observation inflation might affect action memory in a broad range of real-world interactions.…
Author: | Roland Pfister, Katharina A. Schwarz, Robert Wirth, Isabel Lindner |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-170739 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Advances in Cognitive Psychology |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pagenumber: | 166-176 |
Source: | Advances in Cognitive Psychology 2017, 13(2), 166-176. DOI: 10.5709/acp-0216-8 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0216-8 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28717405 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | action observation; memory bias; motor simulation; observation inflation |
Release Date: | 2019/10/04 |
Licence (German): | CC BY-NC-ND: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |