observation inflation effect / effet d’inflation par observation
Group: Human, Psychology, Thematic grouping Memory and Law
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie, Regroupement thématique Mémoire et justice
Definition: Observing another person perform an action can lead people to falsely remember that they performed that action (Lindner et al., 2010).
Définition : L'observation d'une autre personne en train d'effectuer une action peut conduire des personnes à se souvenir faussement qu'elles ont exécuté elles-mêmes l'action en question (Lindner et al., 2010).
Broader term: memory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la mémoire
Related terms: eyewitness testimony, action memory, induced false memory
Termes associés : témoignage oculaire, mémoire de l'action, faux souvenir induit
Has theories: source monitoring framework
Selected bibliography: Kashihara, S., Kanayama, N., Miyatani, M., & Nakao, T. (2017). Attentive observation is essential for the misattribution of agency to self-performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 890. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00890 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Kersten, A. W., Earles, J. L., & Brymer, J. W. (2022). Effects of age and self-performance on memory for who did what. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77(3), 472–481. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab118 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Kękuś, M., Dziubańska, R., Komęza, I., Dudek, I., Chylińska, K., Szpitalak, M., & Polczyk, R. (2020). Observation inflation and interrogative suggestibility : Different but related memory errors. Polish Psychological Bulletin 51(3):219-225. https://doi.org/10.24425/ppb.2020.134728 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Lange, N., Hollins, T. J., & Bach, P. (2017). Testing the motor simulation account of source errors for actions in recall. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1686. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01686 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Lindner, I., Echterhoff, G., Davidson, P., & Brand, M. (2010). Observation inflation : Your actions become mine. Psychological science, 21, 1291‑1299. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610379860 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Lindner, I., Schain, C., Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2012). When do we confuse self and other in action memory? Reduced false memories of self-performance after observing actions by an out-group vs. in-group actor. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 467. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00467 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Wirth, R., & Lindner, I. (2017). My command, my act : Observation inflation in face-to-face interactions. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13(2), 177‑187. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0217-7 [Study type: empirical study / Access: open], Schain, C., Lindner, I., Beck, F., & Echterhoff, G. (2012). Looking at the actor’s face : Identity cues and attentional focus in false memories of action performance from observation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(5), 1201‑1204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.04.003 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Wang, L., Chen, Y., & Yue, Y. (2022). Is motor activity the key to the observation-inflation effect? The role of action simulation. Memory & Cognition, 50(5), 1048‑1060. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01259-x [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
Dataset citations: Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Wirth, R., & Lindner, I. (2017, April 26). My command, my act: Observation inflation in face-to-face interactions. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/RDFS6