Unconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasons
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Perfect, Timothy J.
Stark, Louisa-Jayne
Abstract / Description
Previous research has shown that if people improve other’s ideas, they subsequently unconsciously plagiarise them at a dramatically higher rate than if they imagine them, or simply hear them again. It has been claimed that this occurs because improvement resembles the process of generation, and that these are confused during retrieval. However, an alternate possibility is tested here: plagiarism may increases because improvement increases personal relevance of the ideas. Two studies were conducted in which there was an initial generation phase, followed by an elaboration phase in which participants imagined the previous ideas, improved them for their own use, or improved them for an older adult’s use. One week later, participants attempted to recall their own ideas, and generated new solutions to the previous problems. In both studies, improvement of doubled the rate of subsequent plagiarism in the recall own task, but this effect was not mediated by whether people improved ideas for their own use, of for use by someone else. Improvement had no effect on plagiarism in the generate-new task. These studies therefore rule out personal relevance, or personal semantics as the source of the improvement effect in unconscious plagiarism.
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source memory unconscious plagiarism selfPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2012-05-31
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
8
Issue
2
Page numbers
275–283
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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peerReviewed
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Perfect, T. J., & Stark, L.-J. (2012). Unconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasons. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 8(2), 275–283. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v8i2.459
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Perfect, Timothy J.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Stark, Louisa-Jayne
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Date of first publication2012-05-31
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Abstract / DescriptionPrevious research has shown that if people improve other’s ideas, they subsequently unconsciously plagiarise them at a dramatically higher rate than if they imagine them, or simply hear them again. It has been claimed that this occurs because improvement resembles the process of generation, and that these are confused during retrieval. However, an alternate possibility is tested here: plagiarism may increases because improvement increases personal relevance of the ideas. Two studies were conducted in which there was an initial generation phase, followed by an elaboration phase in which participants imagined the previous ideas, improved them for their own use, or improved them for an older adult’s use. One week later, participants attempted to recall their own ideas, and generated new solutions to the previous problems. In both studies, improvement of doubled the rate of subsequent plagiarism in the recall own task, but this effect was not mediated by whether people improved ideas for their own use, of for use by someone else. Improvement had no effect on plagiarism in the generate-new task. These studies therefore rule out personal relevance, or personal semantics as the source of the improvement effect in unconscious plagiarism.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationPerfect, T. J., & Stark, L.-J. (2012). Unconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasons. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 8(2), 275–283. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v8i2.459
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1134
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1326
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v8i2.459
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Keyword(s)source memoryen_US
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Keyword(s)unconscious plagiarismen_US
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Keyword(s)selfen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleUnconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasonsen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers275–283
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Volume8
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