Voluntary Forgetting of (Presumably) Untrustworthy News: The Case of List‐Method Directed Forgetting

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-769160
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.76916

Abel, Magdalena

; Bäuml, Karl‐Heinz

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Abstract

Research on list-method directed forgetting (LMDF) shows that previously encountered material can be voluntarily forgotten. Here, we examined LMDF of news contents. Experiment 1 found that a first set of news headlines from a supposedly untrustworthy source could be voluntarily forgotten, which benefited memory for a second set of news headlines from a supposedly trustworthy source. Experiment 2 ...