Journal
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 87-103Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.01.004
Keywords
Unconscious plagiarism; Source memory; Generation; Monitoring; Recall
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Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council of UK [RES-062-23-2766]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/I003177/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/I003177/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Previous studies of unconscious plagiarism have asked participants to recall their own ideas from a previous group-problem solving session, and have typically reported that people mistakenly include a partner's responses when trying to recall their own. To date, there has been little research looking at the propensity to include one's own responses when trying to recall a partner's previous contribution to the group. Experiment I demonstrated that people make both kinds of source-error during recall, but source errors are more common in the recall-partner task. This pattern was replicated in Experiments 2a and 2b with source-errors and intrusions increasing over a delay. Experiment 3 used an extended version of each recall task, in which participants reported all items that came to mind, whilst indicating which responses were goal-relevant. The tendency for source-errors to occur more for the recall-partner task was shown to be a function of both idea availability and output monitoring, whereas the tendency for source-errors to increase over a delay was shown to be due solely to output monitoring. Thus, unconscious plagiarism errors are one instantiation of the more general problem of source-specified recall, which is influenced jointly by processes at generation and output monitoring. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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