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The relationship of confabulation to the memory, intelligence, suggestibility and personality of prison inmates
Author(s) -
Gudjonsson Gisli H.,
Sigurdsson Jon F.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199602)10:1<85::aid-acp372>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - suggestibility , psychology , confabulation (neural networks) , personality , prison , eysenck personality questionnaire , developmental psychology , cognition , social psychology , big five personality traits , psychiatry , criminology , extraversion and introversion
This study investigates the relationship of confabulation to memory, intelligence, suggestibility and personality, as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Gough Socialisation Scale. The subjects were 255 Icelandic prison inmates. Confabulation was measured from the memory narrative of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS 1). The two components of confabulation—distortions and fabrications—were scored and analysed separately. Distortions and fabrications correlated poorly with each other. Furthermore, the confabulation scores correlated very poorly with the other psychological variables. The only positive correlations were a positive relationship with GSS Shift and a negative relationship with intelligence.