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Gabbert, Memon, and Wright (2006) claimed evidence of an order effect in collaborative memory contamination, in which the collaborator who first spoke of a particular detail was more influential. The Gabbert et al. findings are ambiguous in this regard, because their analyses collapsed across (1) cases in which both collaborators reported the detail they had witnessed and (2) cases in which only one of the collaborators mentioned the detail s/he had mentioned. The latter cases do not evidence an order effect per se.
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Gabbert, F., Memon, A., &Wright, D. B. (2006). Memory conformity: Disentangling the steps toward influence during a discussion.Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,13, 480–485.
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Work on this comment was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant.
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Lindsay, D.S. Order effects in collaborative memory contamination? Comment on Gabbert, Memon, and Wright (2006). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 14, 1010 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194137
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194137