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Misremembering the appearance of common objects: further cross-cultural confirmation.

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The finding that people have surprisingly poor memory for the details of commonly used coins was replicated using a heretofore unstudied currency (the Irish Punt). The accuracy of 241 undergraduates in psychology in identifying a true coin from among a ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002Dec in Journal: Percept Mot Skills (Language : eng)

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Misremembering the appearance of common objects: further cross-cultural confirmation.

Hughes BM

Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway. brian.hughes@nuigalway.ie

The finding that people have surprisingly poor memory for the details of commonly used coins was replicated using a heretofore unstudied currency (the Irish Punt). The accuracy of 241 undergraduates in psychology in identifying a true coin from among a selection of similar fakes was low (41.9%), in line with findings from several other countries.

PMID : 12578268 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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Brian M	Hughes	BM

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway. brian.hughes@nuigalway.ie

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