Authors
Victoria K Alogna, Matthew K Attaya, Philip Aucoin, Štěpán Bahník, Stacy Birch, Angela R Birt, Brian H Bornstein, Samantha Bouwmeester, Maria A Brandimonte, Charity Brown, Kelsi Buswell, C Carlson, M Carlson, S Chu, A Cislak, M Colarusso, Melissa F Colloff, Kimberly S Dellapaolera, J-F Delvenne, Alberto Di Domenico, Aaron Drummond, Gerald Echterhoff, John E Edlund, Casey M Eggleston, Beth Fairfield, G Franco, Fiona Gabbert, Bradlee W Gamblin, Maryanne Garry, R Gentry, Elizabeth A Gilbert, DL Greenberg, Jamin Halberstadt, Lauren Hall, Peter JB Hancock, D Hirsch, Glenys Holt, JC Jackson, J Jong, Andre Kehn, C Koch, René Kopietz, Ulrike Körner, Melina A Kunar, Calvin K Lai, Stephen Richard H Langton, Fábio P Leite, Nicola Mammarella, John E Marsh, KA McConnaughy, S McCoy, Alex H McIntyre, Christian A Meißner, Robert B Michael, AA Mitchell, M Mugayar-Baldocchi, R Musselman, C Ng, Austin L Nichols, Narina L Nunez, Matthew A Palmer, Jessica E Pappagianopoulos, MS Petro, CR Poirier, Emma Portch, M Rainsford, A Rancourt, Connie Romig, Eva Rubínová, Mevagh Sanson, L Satchell, JD Sauer, Kimberly Schweitzer, J Shaheed, F Skelton, GA Sullivan, Kyle J Susa, Jessica K Swanner, WB Thompson, R Todaro, Joanna Ulatowska, Tim Valentine, Peter PJL Verkoeijen, Marek Vranka, KA Wade, Christopher A Was, Dawn Weatherford, K Wiseman, T Zaksaite, Daniel V Zuj, Rolf A Zwaan
Publication date
2014/9
Journal
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Volume
9
Issue
5
Pages
556-578
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later. However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally described the robber were 25% worse at identifying the robber in a lineup than were participants who instead listed U.S. states and capitals—this has been termed the “verbal overshadowing” effect (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990). More recent studies suggested that this effect might be substantially smaller than first reported. Given uncertainty about the effect size, the influence of this finding in the memory literature, and its practical importance for police procedures, we conducted two collections of preregistered direct replications (RRR1 and RRR2) that differed only in the order of the description task and a filler task. In RRR1, when the description task immediately followed the robbery, participants who provided a description were 4% less …
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