Post-Event Information and Misinformation Effects

Post-Event Information and Misinformation Effects

Abstract

This paper is based on a study about post-event information and the way it leads to misinformation. The study looks at the influence caused by forms of sentence surface on misinformation effects. In this paper the study is based on viewing a given film clip. In this case, the participants received a narrative on a post-event clip. The narrative described the film event fully. In the post-even narrative, critical sentences were presented either in the form of a statement or in the form of a question. The presentation contained misinformation rather than questions that reflected the original event. At the time of the final recall test, the participants were told that all…