Registered replication report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

Journal article

Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later. However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally described the robber were 25% worse at identifying the robber in a lineup than were participants who instead listed U.S. states and capitals—this has been termed the “verbal overshadowing” effect (Schooler and Engstler-Schooler, 1990). More recent studies suggested that this effect might be substantially smaller than firs...

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Authors: Alogna, V; Attaya, M; Aucoin, P; Bahnik, S; Birch, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Journal: Perspectives on Psychological Science
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 556-578
• Publication date: 2014-09-01
• DOI: 10.1177/1745691614545653
• EISSN: 1745-6924
• ISSN: 1745-6916
• Keywords: recognition memory; verbal overshadowing; eyewitness; replication; lineup identification