Assassination of a controversial politician:: Remembering details from another non‐existent film

Marko Jelicic; Tom Smeets; Maarten J. V. Peters; Ingrid Candel; Robert Horselenberg; Harald Merckelbach

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Assassination of a controversial politician: Remembering details from another non‐existent film

Marko Jelicic, Tom Smeets, Maarten J. V. Peters, Ingrid Candel, Robert Horselenberg, Harald Merckelbach

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We asked undergraduate students (N = 83) if they had seen non‐existent video footage of the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, and whether they could remember details of this footage. Sixty‐three percent of the participants indicated they had seen the footage, and 23% were able to provide details of this footage. Participants with ‘memories’ of the non‐existent footage had higher fantasy proneness scores than those who could not remember this footage. Results underscore the malleability of our autobiographical memory

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	591-596
Journal	Applied Cognitive Psychology
Volume	20
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1210
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

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