Research into survey biases due to elapsed time?

[nicked_metal]

I have a work-related question for LJ to help me with, and it's not even creative writing (wow, such a thing is possible

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[qamar]

The 'Lost in the mall' technique in false memory research might be useful. Begin with Elizabeth Loftus, but there are 100s of experiments since that use her method.

'The Seven Sins of Memory' by Daniel Schacter is a nice book with plenty of research references to hunt down for further experiments.

[nicked_metal]

Thank you!

[cheshire_bitten]

Their will be a bunch of psych studies around time lapes that should be useful, but it isn't my area anymore.

[nicked_metal]

Oooh! Perfect! Thanks :D (If only the abstract actually included the answer to the question posed in the title, will have to get the full text.)

[twilight2000]

There's some good examples about the assassination of the US President John F. Kennedy - they have questions and answers from the day of - and from some 25 years later (if I recall correctly) and the answers differ markedly.

Also, check ethnography studies for a field in which answers change with elapsed time - both from the participants and from the ethnographers themselves (usually connected with anthropological/sociological studies).

Sorry I can't point to a specific site, it's been a few years ;>.

[nicked_metal]

Oooh! That led me to some stuff that's particularly relevant to selling our stuff, thanks!