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      Working Memory Beats Age: Evidence of the Influence of Working Memory on the Production of Children’s Emotional False Memories

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          Emotional valence and working memory ability (WM) affect false memories’ production in adults. Whereas a number of studies have investigated the role of emotional valence in children’s tendency to produce spontaneous false memories, individual differences in WM have not been previously included. In the current article, we were interested in investigating whether emotion and WM would interact in influencing the propensity to incur inferential false memories for scripted events. Ninety-eight typically developing children (first-, third-, and eighth- graders) were administered the Emotional false memory paradigm – allowing to study false memories for negative, positive, and neutral events – and a WM task. Results showed that regardless of age, valence influenced false memories’ production, such that positive events protected against incurring distortions. Furthermore, WM interacted with valence, such that children with higher WM abilities produced fewer false memories for negative events. Concerning confidence judgments, only the youngest group of children claimed to be overconfident when committing false memories for negative and neutral events. Results are discussed in terms of the role of individual differences in higher cognitive abilities interacting with the emotional content of to-be-remembered events.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                18 August 2021
                2021
                : 12
                : 714498
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua , Padua, Italy
                [2] 2Department of General Psychology, University of Padua , Padua, Italy
                Author notes

                Edited by: Beatriz Martín-Luengo, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

                Reviewed by: Kate Cockcroft, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Carlos M. Gómez, University of Seville, Spain

                *Correspondence: Chiara Mirandola, chiara.mirandola@ 123456unipd.it

                This article was submitted to Cognitive Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2021.714498
                8416354
                34484072
                835a3454-2a4d-4ac8-bedb-4ee15278b0f2
                Copyright © 2021 Mirandola and Pazzaglia.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                : 25 May 2021
                : 07 July 2021
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                Figures: 2, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 32, Pages: 7, Words: 0
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                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                emotion,false memories,working memory,children,confidence
                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                emotion, false memories, working memory, children, confidence

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