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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1988 American Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0147-7307
- eISSN
- 1573-661X
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF01064274
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Claims of amnesia are frequently raised in criminal and civil cases. There is a consensus in the legal community that amnesia is easily faked and practically impossible to disprove, and that many who claim to be amnesic are malingering. The present studies compared, on a variety of memory tasks, subjects instructed to simulate amnesia with subjects who had memory impairments due to brain damage. The simulators displayed patterns of performance different from those of memory-impaired subjects. These results suggest that lay-people have inaccurate beliefs about the cognitive features of amnesia, and do not distinguish among etiologically distinct amnestic disorders. Tasks that exploit lay-people’s inaccurate beliefs about amnesia appear promising for the detection of malingering.
Journal
Law and Human Behavior – American Psychological Association
Published: Mar 1, 1988