Механический мир
09/09/2009
“ Suggestive question: Experimental research by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus[5] has established that trying to answer leading questions can create false memories in eyewitnesses. For example, participants in an experiment may all view the same videoclip of a car crash. Participants are assigned at random in one of two groups. The participants in the first group are asked “How fast was the car moving when it passed by the Stop sign?” The participants in the other group are asked a similar question that refers to no Stop sign. Later, the participants from the first group are more likely to remember seeing a Stop sign in the videoclip, even though there was no Stop sign present in the video. Such findings have been replicated and raise serious questions about the validity of information elicited through leading questions during eyewitness testimony. „
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