ABSTRACT
In recent years, we have been interested in the conditions under which false memories are likely to be planted in adults and children and the conditions under which adults and children are more likely to be resistant to the implantation of false memories. In the process of accumulating results that address this research question (see, e.g., Pezdek, Finger, & Hodge, 1997; Pezdek & Hodge, 1999; Pezdek & Roe, 1994, 1997), we realized that we had a fairly large corpus of data on a different issue, that is, qualitative and quantitative differences between memories for true and false events. Although some of these data are included in the various articles that we have published, we decided that there was a need to synthesize these findings in one source, along with the findings of other researchers who have compared phenomenological qualities of memories for true and false events. This chapter was written for this purpose.
