False Memories and Free Speech: Is Scientific Debate Being Suppressed?

Summary

Commentators have raised important points, including the relative contribution of false beliefs versus false memories and the issue of how findings in the laboratory can be generalized to the real world, which we have addressed here. However, some of the commentaries misrepresent what we said, make criticisms that are unfounded, or imply that our article should not have been published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. We relate these responses to a more general literature on the suppression of unwanted scientific findings and suggest that the study of false memory would be better served by more openness to alternative perspectives. Copyright © 2016 The Authors Applied Cognitive Psychology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Contributors

Bernice Andrews: [e-mail]

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Appl Cogn Psychol

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Appl Cogn Psychol

Journal ID (doi): 10.1002/(ISSN)1099-0720

Journal ID (publisher-id): ACP

Title: Applied Cognitive Psychology

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )

ISSN (Print): 0888-4080

Publication date (Electronic): 14 October 2016

Publication date (Print): Jan-Feb 2017

Volume: 31

Issue: 1 , Target Article and Commentaries: Creating Memories for False Autobiographical Events in Childhood ( doiID: 10.1002/acp.v31.1 )

Pages: 45-49

Affiliations

[ ¹ ]Royal Holloway University of London LondonUK

[ ² ]University College London LondonUK

Author notes

[*] [* ] Correspondence to: Bernice Andrews, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, London TW20 0EX, UK.

E‐mail: b.andrews@ 123456rhul.ac.uk

Article

Publisher ID: ACP3285

DOI: 10.1002/acp.3285

PMC ID: 5248650

SO-VID: 26c236e8-4479-4177-96f8-6f6692a19d28

Copyright statement: Copyright © 2016 The Authors Applied Cognitive Psychology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

License:

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Page count

Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Pages: 5, Words: 3864

Product

Categories

Subject: Rejoinder

Subject: Rejoinder

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