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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 1159-1167Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2167702619859335
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EMDR; eye movement desensitization and reprocessing; false memory; PTSD; memory performance; eyewitness testimony; open data; open materials
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In this direct replication of Houben, Otgaar, Roelofs, and Merckelbach (Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 610-616, 2018), we tested whether making eye movements during memory recall increases susceptibility to creating false memories. Undergraduates (N = 206) watched a video of a car crash, after which they recalled the video with or without simultaneously making eye movements. Next, participants received misinformation about the video. Finally, during the critical test, they were questioned about video details. The results showed that making eye movements did not increase endorsement of misinformation (i.e., false memory), nor did it reduce (correct) memory details or memory vividness and emotionality. Random variation in sampling or measurement, low reliability of the test instrument, and observer-expectancy effects may explain discrepancies between study effects. Only multiple direct replications by different (independent) laboratories with standardized instruments will allow for assessing whether the effect is robust and largely independent of random variation and moderators.
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