Phenomenal characteristics of cryptomnesia

[en] Qualitative characteristics of cryptomnesia, or unintentional plagiarism were investigated. In Experiment I we compared accurate and inaccurate source attributions in terms of their level of confidence using instructions that did not require a fixed number of responses. Confidence was lower for plagiarised responses than for correct responses. Nevertheless, participants provided high ratings of certainty for a large proportion of their plagiarised responses. In Experiment 2 the phenomenological differences between plagiarised recall and veridical recall were compared by using an adaptation of the memory characteristics questionnaire (Johnson, Foley, Suengas,

Research Center/Unit :

Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales - ULiège

Disciplines :

Theoretical & cognitive psychology

Author, co-author :

Brédart, Serge ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive

Lampinen, J. M.

Defeldre, A. C.

Language :

English

Title :

Phenomenal characteristics of cryptomnesia

Publication date :

January 2003

Journal title :

Memory

ISSN :

0965-8211

eISSN :

1464-0686

Publisher :

Psychology Press, Hove, United Kingdom

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Pages :

1-11

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