Stephen Lindsay

Stephen Lindsay

Stephen Lindsay appears on this site as third author of the 1993 source monitoring review and co-author of the 2017 pooled analysis of implantation studies.

Who they are

The work of Stephen Lindsay reaches this site through the papers listed below. On this site the name is tied to Source Monitoring, Memory Implantation.

Key papers

Johnson, M. K., Hashtroudi, S., & Lindsay, D. S. (1993). Source monitoring. Psychological Bulletin, 114(1), 3-28. What it reports: Reviews a framework in which judgements of where a memory came from rest on qualities of the experience, use flexible criteria and are open to error, with applications to eyewitness testimony and to fiction taken as fact.

Scoboria, A., Wade, K. A., Lindsay, D. S., Azad, T., Strange, D., Ost, J., & Hyman, I. E. (2017). A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies. Memory, 25(2), 146-163. What it reports: Pooled memory reports from eight implantation studies with 423 participants and coded them against seven criteria. 30.4 per cent were classified as false memories, rising to 46.1 per cent with self-relevant information, an imagination procedure and no photo.

Key ideas

Source Monitoring: The judgement of where a memory came from, based on qualities of the experience and open to error.

Memory Implantation: Methods by which a suggested event comes to be reported as remembered.

Sources

  1. Johnson, M. K., Hashtroudi, S., & Lindsay, D. S. (1993). Source monitoring. Psychological Bulletin, 114(1), 3-28.
  2. Scoboria, A., Wade, K. A., Lindsay, D. S., Azad, T., Strange, D., Ost, J., & Hyman, I. E. (2017). A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies. Memory, 25(2), 146-163.