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Unconscious plagiarism: ideas are

From Idea Generation To Idea Donation:. how memory strength leads us to attribute our own ideas to someone else . Nicholas Lange, Timothy J. Perfect and Ian Dennis, Plymouth University. PLAGIARISM or DONATION?. Unconscious plagiarism: ideas are

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Unconscious plagiarism: ideas are

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  1. From Idea Generation To Idea Donation: how memory strength leads us to attribute our own ideas to someone else. Nicholas Lange, Timothy J. Perfect and Ian Dennis, Plymouth University PLAGIARISM or DONATION? Unconscious plagiarism: ideas are inadvertently misattributed towards the self when recalling own ideas (Brown & Murphy, 1989). Unconscious donation: ideas are given away when recalling partner’s ideas. Which bias dominates, and why? INTRO 32 participants alternated generating category examplars in pairs and returned to freely recall own or partner ideas after a week (targets). In addition they were asked to write out all other ideas that came to mind (new or partner/own ideas: non-targets) in a separate column. METHOD More ideas are donated than stolen.What are the underlying processes that make participants attribute away from the self when recalling partner’s ideas more than towards the self when recalling own? SOURCE MONITORING? Participants had the opportunity to reject ideas they remembered but thought were from the wrong source by writing them in the non-target column. Wrongfully accepting ideas from the wrong source constitute source monitoring errors. GENERATION? All ideas written in both columns were taken into account to calculate how many ideas from each source participants remembered in the two tasks. No differences in source monitoring, but self-generated ideas are remembered better than merely observed ideas When recalling ideas, more ideas are donated when recalling own ideas than plagiarised when recalling partner’s ideas. This isn’t the result of a difference in source monitoring in the two tasks since the same rates of all potential misattributions are wrongfully accepted. Rather remembering own ideas better (hence remembering more of them), means that overall there are more own ideas to donate than there are partner ideas to steal. The same pattern of results occurs with a day’s delay to recall. DISCUSSION Observation Generation Memory Memory Monitoring Monitoring Donation Plagiarism Brown, A. S., & Murphy, D. R. (1989). Cryptomnesia: Delineating inadvertent plagiarism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15(3), 432–442. Contact: nick.lange@plymouth.ac.uk

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