Unconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasons

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...

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Main Authors: Timothy J. Perfect, Louisa-Jayne Stark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2012-05-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
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Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/v8i2.459