Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Cognitive factors can mediate the tendency to create falsememory. We explored the role of the two systems ofreasoning in the production of false memories. Suchdifference can be assessed through the Cognitive ReflectionTest (CRT), a measure of the propensity to reflect rather thanproducing an intuitive response. By the use of a DRM-likeparadigm in a prose recognition memory task, we measuredCRT-related individual differences in producing falsememories. We observed that intuitive thinkers are more likelyto produce false memories.