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verbal overshadowing effect
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A memory phenomenon that occurs when verbally describing memories of nonverbal information (e.g. a face) impairs their subsequent retrieval.
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A memory phenomenon that occurs when verbally describing memories of nonverbal information (e.g. a face) impairs their subsequent retrieval.
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Schooler, J. W., & Engstler-Schooler, T. Y. (1990). Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: Some things are better left unsaid. Cognitive Psychology, 22(1), 36-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(90)90003-M
Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M. K., Aucoin, P., Bahník, Š., Birch, S., Birt, A. R., Bornstein, B. H., Bouwmeester, S., Brandimonte, M. A., Brown, C., Buswell, K., Carlson, C., Carlson, M., Chu, S., Cislak, A., Colarusso, M., Colloff, M. F., Dellapaolera, K. S., Delvenne, J.-F., … Zwaan, R. A. (2014). Registered Replication Report : Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(5), 556–578. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691614545653
Dodson, C. S., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Garrett, B. L., Kafadar, K., & Yaffe, J. (2025). Persistence of the verbal overshadowing and weapon-focus effects on lineup identification performance. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 14(3), 416–427. (2025-46577-001). https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000195
Baker, M., & Reysen, M. (2020). The influence of recall instruction type and length on the verbal overshadowing effect. The American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 38, 3–29.
Holdstock, J. S., Dalton, P., May, K. A., Boogert, S., & Mickes, L. (2022). Lineup identification in young and older witnesses: Does describing the criminal help or hinder? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00399-1
Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001). A meta-analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect in face identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15(6), 603‑616. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.728
Marmurek, H. H. C., Rusyn, R., Zgardau, A., & Zgardau, A.-M. (2022). Verbal overshadowing at an immediate task-test delay is independent of video-task delay. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(2), 243–248. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1981916
Meissner, C. A., Sporer, S. L., & Susa, K. J. (2008). A theoretical review and meta-analysis of the description-identification relationship in memory for faces. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20(3), 414–455. https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440701728581
Pohl, R. F. (2022). Labeling and overshadowing effects. In R. F. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions: Intriguing phenomena in thinking, judgment, and memory (3rd ed.). Routledge.
Wilson, B. M., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., & Mickes, L. (2018). The effects of verbal descriptions on performance in lineups and showups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(1), 113–124. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000354
Mickes, L., & Wixted, J. T. (2015). On the applied implications of the “verbal overshadowing effect.” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(3), 400–403. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615576762
Therre, A., Bell, R., Menne, N. M., Mayer, C., Lichtenhagen, U., & Buchner, A. (in press). On the cognitive processes underlying the verbal overshadowing effect: Culprit descriptions reduce culprit‐presence detection and guessing‐based selection in eyewitness responses to lineups. Legal and Criminological Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.70013
Baker, M. A., & Reysen, M. B. (2021). Using intentional and incidental encoding instructions to test the transfer inappropriate processing shift account of verbal overshadowing. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1946545
Hatano, A., Ueno, T., Kitagami, S., & Kawaguchi, J. (2015). Why verbalization of non-verbal memory reduces recognition accuracy: A computational approach to verbal overshadowing. PLoS ONE, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127618
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