Education Shapes Future Legal Practitioners' Evaluation of Legal Cases
status: Published online
Beliefs and therapeutic practices related to traumatic memories among Italian cognitive behavioral therapists and traine...
status: published
Memory experts’ beliefs about repressed memory
ABSTRACTWhat we believe about how memory works affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life. In Patihis, Ho et al. [Patihis, L., Ho, L. Y., Tingen, I. W., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Are the "memory wars" over? A scientist-practitioner gap in beliefs about repressed memory. Psychological Science, 25, 519-530.], we documented...
Memory experts' beliefs about repressed memory.
Published in Memory (Hove, England)
ABSTRACTWhat we believe about how memory works affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life. In Patihis, Ho et al. [Patihis, L., Ho, L. Y., Tingen, I. W., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Are the "memory wars" over? A scientist-practitioner gap in beliefs about repressed memory. Psychological Science, 25, 519-530.], we documented...
Laypeople's beliefs about memory: disentangling the effects of age and time.
Published in Memory (Hove, England)
Cognitive scientists have firmly established that memory is vulnerable to decay and distortion. Yet laypeople - who may be required to evaluate memory evidence as jurors - have shown less awareness of memory fallibility. Although we might expect laypeople's knowledge of memory to have improved over time, research has yet to explore this issue while...
Age differences in perceptions of memory strategy effectiveness for recent and remote memory.
Published in Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
We examined whether young and older adults hold different beliefs about the effectiveness of memory strategies for specific types of memory tasks and whether memory strategies are perceived to be differentially effective for young, middle-aged, and older targets. Participants rated the effectiveness of five memory strategies for 10 memory tasks at ...
Latent variables underlying the memory beliefs of Chartered Clinical Psychologists, Hypnotherapists and undergraduate st...
Published in Memory (Hove, England)
In courts in the United Kingdom, understanding of memory phenomena is often assumed to be a matter of common sense. To test this assumption 337 UK respondents, consisting of 125 Chartered Clinical Psychologists, 88 individuals who advertised their services as Hypnotherapists (HTs) in a classified directory, the Yellow PagesTM, and 124 first year un...
The impact of beliefs about face recognition ability on memory retrieval processes in young and older adults.
Published in Memory (Hove, England)
This study examined whether beliefs about face recognition ability differentially influence memory retrieval in older compared to young adults. Participants evaluated their ability to recognise faces and were also given information about their ability to perceive and recognise faces. The information was ostensibly based on an objective measure of t...
Instructor and student knowledge of study strategies.
Published in Memory (Hove, England)
Students' self-reported study skills and beliefs are often inconsistent with empirically supported (ES) study strategies. However, little is known regarding instructors' beliefs about study skills and if such beliefs differ from those of students. In the current study, we surveyed college students' and instructors' knowledge of study strategies and...
