People constantly talk about past experiences. Burgeoning psychological research has
examined the role of communication in remembering by placing rememberers in …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Many instructional activities ask learners to collaborate, with the goal of enhancing the
understandings group members acquire beyond what they might learn working separately …

The current study investigated the role of metacognition with respect to the consequences of
exposures to inaccurate information. Previous work has consistently demonstrated that …

The 2016 US Presidential campaign saw an explosion in popularity for the term “fake news.”
This phenomenon raises interesting questions: Which news sources do people believe are …

Speakers reshape listeners' memories through at least two discrete means:(1) social
contagion and (2) socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting (SS-RIF). Three experiments …

The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures
leads, quite logically, to the appealing notion that people can be 'persuaded'to change their …

People's incorrect recalls can contaminate their collaborators' performance on subsequent
tasks, referred to as the social contagion of memory. Research investigating how …

Studies of eyewitness memory commonly employ variations on a standard misinformation
paradigm. Participants are (a) exposed to an event (eg, a simulated crime),(b) misled about …

Exposures to false ideas can result in that information being remembered later,
inappropriately identified as valid, and reproduced on subsequent tasks. Previous work has …