Reality Monitoring (RM) and the discrimination between actual and false statements.

What is it about?

Participants were instructed to either describe a traffic accident as eyewitness actual role or to describe the accident as a simulated vic-tim. Data were analysed in terms of accuracy and quality, and were represented using high dimensional visualization (HDV). In Experiment 1 (between-participant design), participants made significantly more references to cognitive operations, more self-references and less changes in order when describing the event as simulated victim. In Experiment 2 (within-participants design) participants also made significantly more references to cognitive operations and more self references when describing the event from the simulated victim as well as being less accurate, providing less irrelevant information and more evaluative comments. HDV graphics indicated that false statements differ holistically from actual ones.

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Why is it important?

False statements differ holistically from actual ones. Intuition judgements can take into consideration more criteria to distinguish between both statements than explicit knowledge based on content criteria techniques.