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reinforced self-affirmation procedure  

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  • A method of increasing subjects’ confidence in their memories, which is intended to reduce their susceptibility to suggestions and thus reduce the effect of various forms of memory distortion. The procedure is based on two techniques: self-affirmation (the subject is asked to write down his or her highest life achievements) and positive feedback in a memory task.

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  • RSA

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Kękuś, M., Chylińska, K., Szpitalak, M., Polczyk, R., Ito, H., Mori, K., & Barzykowski, K. (2023). Reinforced self-affirmation as a method for reducing eyewitness memory conformity: An experimental examination using a modified MORI technique. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(3), 660–674. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4065

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Szpitalak, M. (in press). Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity. Psychology, Crime & Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2093872

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Szpitalak, M., & Polczyk, R. (2013). Promoting eyewitness testimony quality: Warning vs. reinforced self-affi rmation as methods of reduction of the misinformation effect. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 1(44), 85–91.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Szpitalak, M., & Polczyk, R. (2016). Reinforced self-affirmation and interrogative suggestibility. Psychiatry, Psychology & Law, 23(4), 512–520. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2015.1081088

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Szpitalak, M., & Polczyk, R. (2019). Inducing resistance to the misinformation effect by means of reinforced self-affirmation: The importance of positive feedback. PLOS ONE, 14(1), e0210987. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210987

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Szpitalak, M., & Polczyk, R. (2021). Mediators and Moderators of Reinforced Self-Affirmation as a Method for Reducing the Memory Misinformation Effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 5290. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666707

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Editorial note

  • Studies showed that the reinforced self-affirmation procedure is efficient to reduce the misinformation effect (e.g., Szpitalak, 2022 ; Szpitalak & Polczyk, 2013 ; Szpitalak & Polczyk, 2019 ; Szpitalak & Polczyk, 2021) and interrogative suggestibility (Szpitalak & Polczyk, 2016), but not the memory conformity effect (Kękuś et al., 2023).

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