Empathy reduces susceptibility to false memory

Abstract Psychological and physiological evidence has demonstrated that the underlying mechanisms for empathy and for autobiographical memories were related to a great extent. However, whether the facilitative effect of empathy on memory also applied to misinformation was unknown. To test this, we u...

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Main Author:	Shih-Yu Lo
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Language:	EN
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Subjects:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f5f5872094dd4cfdac42c45f65c6a03d2021-11-28T12:17:05ZEmpathy reduces susceptibility to false memory10.1038/s41598-021-02281-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/f5f5872094dd4cfdac42c45f65c6a03d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02281-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Psychological and physiological evidence has demonstrated that the underlying mechanisms for empathy and for autobiographical memories were related to a great extent. However, whether the facilitative effect of empathy on memory also applied to misinformation was unknown. To test this, we used a misinformation paradigm on a sample of 51 participants aged 20–27. The participants viewed videos that evoked different degrees of empathy, and then were fed misleading information. The participants’ susceptibility to misleading information was lower for the videos that provoked a high degree of empathy compared to the videos that provoked a low degree of empathy. Based on our data, we conclude that empathy can prevent people from being misled by false information.Shih-Yu LoNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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description	Abstract Psychological and physiological evidence has demonstrated that the underlying mechanisms for empathy and for autobiographical memories were related to a great extent. However, whether the facilitative effect of empathy on memory also applied to misinformation was unknown. To test this, we used a misinformation paradigm on a sample of 51 participants aged 20–27. The participants viewed videos that evoked different degrees of empathy, and then were fed misleading information. The participants’ susceptibility to misleading information was lower for the videos that provoked a high degree of empathy compared to the videos that provoked a low degree of empathy. Based on our data, we conclude that empathy can prevent people from being misled by false information.
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Empathy reduces susceptibility to false memory

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