Investigating false memories among “winners” and “losers” in the prisoner’s dilemma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21602018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ciara M Greene (0000-0002-8833-9046, University College Dublin, corresponding author), Oisin Donnelly (University College Dublin), Chris Garvin (University College Dublin), Gillian Murphy (0000-0001-8898-139X, University College Cork) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1334-1348 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-8211 • E-ISSN: 1464-0686 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09658211.2022.2115515 |
| PMID | 36018782 |
| OpenAlex | W4293162166 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Many legal cases hinge on evaluating the veracity of two versions of events ("he said, she said"). Expert witnesses are often called upon to testify on the malleability of memory, most often testifying for the defence. This may lead to the theoretically unfounded assumption that it is only victims who are vulnerable to distorted memories of a crime. Inspired by this question, we conducted a series of five experiments in which 2010 participants played a novel version of the Prisoner's Dilemma. Participants could either betray their partner in the game ("winners") or be betrayed by their partner ("losers"). We exposed participants to misinformation concerning the other player's statements to assess whether winners and losers may be differentially susceptible to false memories of the event in question. Across our experiments, including where real financial rewards were at stake, we found that winners were just as susceptible as losers to memory distortion. We highlight the need to consider the possibility of faulty memory affecting all parties to in legal cases, though further research is needed beyond this highly artificial paradigm
Cognitive psychology · Computer security · Dilemma · Epistemology · False Memory · Misinformation · Prisoner's dilemma · Recall · Computer Science · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Planting misinformation in the human mind
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The effects of acute stress on eyewitness memory
Remembering facts versus feelings in the wake of political events
Emotional stress and eyewitness memory
Eyewitness Science and the Legal System
Closing the Credibility Gap
False memories of fabricated political events
More Effective Choice in the Prisoner's Dilemma
Effective Choice in the Prisoner's Dilemma
A prisoner's dilemma experiment on cooperation with people and human-like computers
Sex differences in factors contributing to the level of cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |