Lost in the mall again: a preregistered replication and extension of Loftus & Pickrell (1995)

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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Gillianen
dc.contributor.authorDawson, Caroline A.en
dc.contributor.authorHuston, Charlotteen
dc.contributor.authorBallantyne, Lisaen
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Elizabethen
dc.contributor.authorCowman, Conor S.en
dc.contributor.authorFitzsimons, Christopheren
dc.contributor.authorMaher, Julieen
dc.contributor.authorRyan, Katie M.en
dc.contributor.authorGreene, Ciara M.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-14T10:25:44Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T10:25:44Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-05en
dc.description.abstractThe seminal Lost in the Mall study has been enormously influential in psychology and is still cited in legal cases. The current study directly replicated this paper, addressing methodological weaknesses including increasing the sample size fivefold and preregistering detailed analysis plans. Participants (Nā€‰=ā€‰123) completed a survey and two interviews where they discussed real and fabricated childhood events, based on information provided by an older relative. We replicated the findings of the original study, coding 35% of participants as reporting a false memory for getting lost in a mall in childhood (compared to 25% in the original study). In an extension, we found that participants self-reported high rates of memories and beliefs for the fabricated event. Mock jurors were also highly likely to believe the fabricated event had occurred and that the participant was truly remembering the event, supporting the conclusions of the original study.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMurphy, G., Dawson, C.A., Huston, C., Ballantyne, L., Barrett, E., Cowman, C.S., Fitzsimons, C., Maher, J., Ryan, K.M. and Greene, C.M. (2023) ā€˜Lost in the mall again: a preregistered replication and extension of Loftus & Pickrell (1995)ā€™, Memory, (13 pp). https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2198327en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09658211.2023.2198327en
dc.identifier.endpage13en
dc.identifier.issn0965-8211en
dc.identifier.issn1464-0686en
dc.identifier.journaltitleMemoryen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14378
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.relation.ispartofMemoryen
dc.rightsĀ© 2023. This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the article, accepted for publication in Memory, doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2198327. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectAutobiographical memoryen
dc.subjectFalse memoryen
dc.subjectMisinformationen
dc.subjectReplicationen
dc.titleLost in the mall again: a preregistered replication and extension of Loftus & Pickrell (1995)en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
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