The impact of memory (mis)beliefs on public health and justice outcomes

记忆（错误）信念对公共卫生和司法结果的影响

• 批准号: 2607688
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Portsmouth
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2607688
• 关键词: impact; memory; mis; beliefs; public

The impact of inaccurate beliefs about memory function is a cause for scientific and societal concern;controversial memory beliefs and associated risky treatments are again gaining currency. Experienceshows memory misbeliefs may contribute to non-trivial adverse health and justice outcomes. Potentialkey negative health outcomes in therapeutic settings are: contentious diagnoses, increased patientdistress, self-harm and suicidal ideation, the development of false or inaccurate memories for childsexual abuse and family fragmentation. Potential key negative outcomes in justice settings are: wrongcharging decisions, inadvertent contamination of witness interviews and incorrect evidential reliabilitydeterminations that may contribute to unsafe verdicts.This research aims to amplify existing scholarly awareness of the range and causes of memory misbeliefsamongst health and justice professionals in England and Wales. It also proposes two novel researchstrands to increase scientific understanding by (i) investigating relevant professionals' training contenton memory function and (ii) tracking health and justice outcomes in individual cases where memories forchild sexual abuse are facilitated or arise within therapy. The research will use mixed quantitative andqualitative methods and gather information via self-completion questionnaires, face-to-face interviewsand retrospectively review clinical and justice case files.The overall research objective is to improve awareness of memory function and fallibility and the needfor caution when investigating and interpreting long- term memory recall. Research data may indicatethe need for improved therapeutic regulation and professional education. It may also warrant revisedcrown court guidance in cases reliant on long-term memory to prove the crime.

关于记忆功能的不准确信念的影响是引起科学和社会关注的原因;有争议的记忆信念和相关的风险治疗再次流行。经验表明，记忆错误信念可能会导致不平凡的不利健康和公正的结果。治疗环境中潜在的关键负面健康结果是：有争议的诊断，增加患者的痛苦，自我伤害和自杀意念，对儿童性虐待和家庭破裂产生错误或不准确的记忆。司法环境中潜在的关键负面结果是：错误的指控决定，证人访谈的无意污染和不正确的证据可靠性决定，可能会导致不安全的verdicts.This研究旨在扩大现有的学术意识的范围和原因的记忆misbeliefsamongst健康和司法专业人员在英格兰和威尔士。它还提出了两个新的研究思路，以增加科学的理解，（i）调查相关专业人员的培训内容记忆功能和（ii）跟踪健康和司法结果的个别情况下，儿童性虐待的记忆是促进或出现在治疗。本研究将采用定量和定性相结合的方法，通过自我完成问卷、面对面访谈和回顾性回顾临床和司法案例来收集信息，总体研究目标是提高对记忆功能和易错性的认识，以及在调查和解释长期记忆回忆时需要谨慎。研究数据可能表明需要改进治疗规范和专业教育。它也可能保证修订刑事法院在依赖长期记忆来证明犯罪的案件中的指导。