The devil is not in the detail: Reply to Belli (2022). Issue 2 (27th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Blank, Hartmut; Skopicz‐Radkiewicz, Ewa; Reddy, Vasudevi
• Is Part Of: Applied cognitive psychology. Volume 36:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 482
• Page End: 486
• Publication Date: 2022-03-27
• Subjects: discrepancy detection -- eyewitness memory -- memory conversion -- memory interference -- misinformation; Cognition -- Periodicals; Psychology, Applied -- Periodicals; 153
• DOI: 10.1002/acp.3931
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0888-4080

Abstract

Abstract: We welcome Belli's ( Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022, 36, 477) comments on our double misinformation research and the opportunity to discuss the involved processes. We agree that our studies do not rule out (some of) the interference mechanisms specified by Belli ( Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022, 36, 477)—because they were never designed for this purpose. Instead, the logic of our studies is at a molar level, potentially involving different molecular‐level interference or non‐interference mechanisms. We concede that specific interference mechanisms may operate in specific circumstances but maintain that our new research approach—adding further contradictory misinformation on top of existing misinformation to reduce the misinformation effect—does pose a challenge for interference accounts in general.