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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 4, 537-545 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167287134010
© 1987 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Effect of Leading Questions on the Self-Monitoring-Memory Correlation

G. Daniel Lassiter

Ohio University

Julie I. Stone

Arbor, Inc.

Michael F. Weigold

University of Florida

Previous research has found a strong and positive relationship between an individual's degree of self-monitoring and his or her memory for information about an observed other. In the present study this self-monitoring-memory correlation was undermined by subsequently exposing subjects to leading questions. This reduced self-monitoring-memory correlation resulted from the greater susceptibility of high- (relative to low-) self-monitoring individuals to the leading questions. Additional data indicated that the memorial advantage of high self-monitoring may be limited to specific kinds of information. It is concluded that high-self-monitoring individuals may make better eyewitnesses than low-self-monitoring individuals only under certain conditions.


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