Believing in dissociative amnesia relates to claiming it

A survey of people’s experiences and beliefs about dissociative amnesia

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ID21601981
AuthorsIvan Mangiulli (0000-0002-5409-7325, Leuven Institute of Criminology, corresponding author), Marko Jelicic (0000-0002-7966-0540, Maastricht University), Lawrence Patihis (0000-0003-2870-8986, University of Portsmouth), Henry Otgaar (0000-0002-2782-2181, Leuven Institute of Criminology)
Year2021
Volume29
Issue10
Pages1362-1374
Publication date2021-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0965-8211 • E-ISSN: 1464-0686
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09658211.2021.1987475
PMID34637695
OpenAlexW3206646779
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited65

102) claimed to have experienced dissociative amnesia. Some claims pertained to amnesia for traumatic autobiographical experiences (e.g., sexual assault), while other claims reflected memory loss for experiences that can be regarded as non-traumatic or non-stressful (e.g., dissociative amnesia for an anniversary). Importantly, many participants believed in the existence of dissociative amnesia, and those who claimed dissociative amnesia indicated even more belief in this phenomenon than the rest of the sample. Finally, many participants indicated to have at least once claimed to have feigned memory loss in their life, and that they experienced some form of forgetting when trying to retrieve events for which they lied upon. Overall, our findings suggest that claiming dissociative amnesia goes hand in hand with believing in dissociative amnesia

Amnesia · Cognitive psychology · Dissociative · Forgetting · Population · Psychiatry · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Traumatic Brain Injury Research

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