A prospective investigation of the vulnerability of memory for positive and negative emotional scenes to the misinformation effect.

Cette etude a examine (prospectivement) l'impact du contenu emotionnel de scenes visuelles sur la precision de la memoire et la susceptibilite a l'information trompeuse au fil du temps. Apres avoir regarde une image photographique tres positive et une autre tres negative, la moitie des participants (N = 80) a recu de l'information trompeuse au sujet de celles-ci. Ensuite, ces derniers ont repondu a des questions portant sur les details des images. Une semaine ou un mois plus tard, on a pose aux participants, qui ne s'y attendaient pas, des questions sur les images. Dans l'ensemble, les souvenirs des participants ayant recu de l'information trompeuse etaient de beaucoup moins exacts que ceux des autres, une tendance qui s'est maintenue dans les suivis, une semaine et un mois plus tard. Toutefois, pour tous, l'exactitude des souvenirs a diminue avec le temps. Par rapport aux images positives, les negatives ont ete associees a une plus grande susceptibilite aux faux souvenirs en ce qui a trait a un important detail trompeur donne aux deux seances. Ainsi, comparativement a une emotion positive, une emotion negative augmente specifiquement la suggestibilite en presence d'une information trompeuse majeure.

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