David Miller
David Miller appears on this site as second author of a 1978 Journal of Experimental Psychology paper on information given after an event.
Who they are
The work of David Miller reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to The Misinformation Effect.
Key papers
Loftus, E. F., Miller, D. G., & Burns, H. J. (1978). Semantic integration of verbal information into a visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 4(1), 19-31. What it reports: Five experiments and a pilot with 1,242 participants who saw slides of one accident and then received consistent, misleading or irrelevant information. Misleading information lowered accuracy on later recognition tests, more so when it came just before the test.
Key ideas
The Misinformation Effect: How a question is worded changes what someone remembers, not just what they say.
Sources
- Loftus, E. F., Miller, D. G., & Burns, H. J. (1978). Semantic integration of verbal information into a visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 4(1), 19-31.