Dissociative amnesia, defined as an inability to remember important autobiographical
experiences, usually of a stressful nature, is a controversial phenomenon. We systematically …

In the legal field, victims and offenders frequently lie to avoid talking about serious incidents,
such as past experiences of sexual abuse or criminal involvement. Although these …

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students
and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a …

Despite the obvious appeal of television police shows, where attractive investigators and
their white-smocked laboratory colleagues solve crimes by conducting high-tech computer …

Dissociative amnesia is one of the most controversial categories in the field of psychiatry
and clinical psychology. Self-reports of dissociative amnesia in the general population, and …

Inthe current experiment, we were interested in the effects of lying (ie false denial or
fabrication) on memory when deceptivestrategies were repeatedly executed. Participants …

False denial is a deceptive strategy that requires fewer cognitive resources than other
strategies (eg simulating amnesia, fabrication). In the present experiment, we examined the …

Being the witness or victim of a crime is in most cases a highly emotional experience—
during the crime itself and in the minutes (or months) afterward. If the crime involves or …

In legal cases, testimonies can become contaminated because of an amalgam of external
and internal influences on memory. It is well-established that external influences (eg …