Ingroup/outgroup membership and competence: investigating the influence on the misinformation effect

• Main Author: Ang, Jia Yi
• Other Authors: Rebecca Nichols
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168508
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Being inherently social, humans often discuss events with others. Research reveals that one’s memory may become less accurate after exposure to misinformation. This is known as the misinformation effect, which is a phenomenon when an individual’s memory of a witnessed event is altered after expos...