Loftus found that false presuppositions included in questions given after á film increase the likelihood that those presuppositions will be remembered as part of the film itself. This finding has been extended to two conditions chosen to simulate more closely nonlaboratory situations. In one condition 27 undergraduates unexpectedly witnessed a live incident and in another condition 27 different undergraduates heard a description of that incident.
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