Source Monitoring and Suggestibility: An Individual Differences Approach

For several decades, research on how people remember events has offered growing evidence that memories are often less accurate than people believe them to be. The reconstructive nature of memory, first delineated by Bartiett (1932/1954) and confirmed by much contemporary literature, leaves mental traces of past experience vulnerable to distortion (Loftus & Palmer, 1974; Neisser & Harsch, 1992; Schacter, 1995; Wright, 1993).