rporate postevent information into their recollections of what they saw and experienced" (p. 26). There have been a number of studies conducted on this phenomenon. One experiment had a group of people watch a film of a car accident. Then post-event information was given the two different groups. The control group was given a question like, "How fast was the white sports car going when it passed the Stop sign?" The group that was misled was asked, "How fast was the white sports car going w!
             hen it passed the barn while travelling along the country road?" In the actual film, there was a stop sign, but no barn. The barn misled people because it was implied in the question. When the misled subjects were asked if there had been a barn in the film, 17% of them reported seeing it. As for the control group, less than 3% said that they saw a barn. According to Loftus, this experiment proved that post-event information could be added to, and transform memory. (Cohen, pp. 78-79).
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