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The effect of presentation medium of post‐event information: impact of co‐witness information
Author(s) -
Itsukushima Yukio,
Nishi Mariko,
Maruyama Masakazu,
Takahashi Masanobu
Publication year - 2006
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/acp.1208
Subject(s) - misinformation , psychology , conversation , witness , presentation (obstetrics) , cognitive psychology , social media , social psychology , communication , linguistics , computer science , computer security , world wide web , medicine , philosophy , radiology
To determine the effects of presentation medium and social influence on the misinformation effect, two experiments using the misinformation paradigm were conducted. The misinformation was presented via a videotaped conversation between two confederates. Three target items were created. In Experiment 1, participants were exposed to misinformation via videotape, and showed a misinformation effect for one of three targets. In Experiment 2, misinformation was given via a written transcript. Participants showed a misinformation effect for two of three targets. In line with previous studies, these results indicate that social information can cause a misinformation effect. The results also suggest that participants may be more easily misled when misleading information is presented via written information than audio‐visual information. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.