Habitual Susceptibility to Misinformation and Individual Differences in Eyewitness Memory

A novel multiple‐event, multiple‐item procedure was employed to identify individuals who were habitually susceptible to accepting post‐event misinformation. Using this procedure, it was found that many people succumbed at least once to the effects of misinformation, given enough opportunities. Moreover, some individuals could be identified who showed a pattern of repeated susceptibility, accepting some misinformation for each of three separate events. Several individual difference measures discriminated between individuals who were habitually susceptible to false post‐event information and those who were not; these include empathy, self‐reported vividness of visual imagery and a memory accuracy measure. © by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.