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| Preferred Name | imagination inflation effect |
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A metamemory phenomenon observed when individuals are asked to imagine hypothetical events, which subsequently increases their confidence that these events actually occurred
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| bibliographicCitation | Garry, M., Sharman, S. J., Wade, K. A., Hunt, M. J., & Smith, P. J. (2001). Imagination inflation is a fact, not an artifact: A reply to Pezdek and Eddy. Memory & Cognition, 29(5), 719–729. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200474
Pezdek, K., & Eddy, R. M. (2001). Imagination inflation: A statistical artifact of regression toward the mean. Memory & Cognition, 29(5), 707–718. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200473
Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208–214. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212420
Calvillo, D. P., Vasquez, A. N., & Pesavento, A. (2019). Imagination inflation effects are unrelated across two imagination inflation tasks. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6(1), 90–98. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000178
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| creator | Frank Arnould
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| created | December 4, 2017
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| modified | November 4, 2025
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