Article Review over Lasting False Beliefs and Their Behavioral Consequences
In the article "Lasting False Beliefs and Their Behavioral Consequences," it covers the cause of telling false information to individuals, and determining if it will affect their behaviors over a short time. Studies on false memories and beliefs have compellingly shown that misleading information can lead to the creation of recollections of entire events that not occurred (Loftus, 2005). When reading the title of this article I thought it was going to be a very interesting article that I would enjoy reading about. My hypothesis was right, this article kept my attention, and I was eager to read more. I felt that the article was very impressive and that it had me interested in knowing what else someone can tell another person, and if they would actually believe it. In this article review I will be giving a summary of the article and what I enjoyed and did not enjoy about the article.
This article examined whether lasting false beliefs can have long-term consequences with respect to particular eating habits. Findings clearly demonstrated that false beliefs can influence attitudes, which leads to the question of whether false beliefs or memories produce real changes in behavior. This study should not be confused with real life examples of misremembering the past are cases in which people have falsely recovered memories of childhood sexual abuses, often instigated by suggestive therapeutic techniques (Geraerts et al.2007; Loftus & Davis, 2006). They tested 180 first year undergraduates (135 women, 45 men), and randomly assigned them into two groups. This experiment was gathered over a three sessions within a period of four months. During the first session the subjects was told to rate whether or not the invent on the inventory happened to them before their 10th birthday, and also completed a questionnaire about their food preferences. During the second session which was a week later they...