Susceptibility to false memories : a study of the effects of framing and intensity.

• Main Authors: Chua, Amanda Hui Xin., Ng, Joycelin Pei Li., Ng, Yan Ting.
• Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44540
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examined the effects of perceptual versus emotional framing, as well as the effects of the intensity of arousal, on false memory susceptibility at the encoding level. 120 undergraduates (aged 18 to 26) read either perceptually-framed or emotionally-framed paragraphs, which were written ba...