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My Command, My Act: Observation Inflation in Face-To-Face Interactions

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 observa...

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Autores principales: Pfister, Roland, Schwarz, Katharina A., Wirth, Robert, Lindner, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Finance and Management in Warsaw 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28717405
http://dx.doi.org/10.5709/acp-0217-8
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description 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 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.
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spelling pubmed-55067492017-07-17 My Command, My Act: Observation Inflation in Face-To-Face Interactions Pfister, Roland Schwarz, Katharina A. Wirth, Robert Lindner, Isabel Adv Cogn Psychol Research Article 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 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. University of Finance and Management in Warsaw 2017-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5506749/ /pubmed/28717405 http://dx.doi.org/10.5709/acp-0217-8 Text en Copyright: © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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