Are truth-tellers as unreliable as liars? An exploration of how exposing low versus high cognitive load before performing denial versus truth-telling affects memory performance.
False denial is a deceptive strategy involving the refusal of knowledge or actions. Previous studies have reported the denial-induced forgetting (DIF) effect, where denying information during an interrogation impairs memory for the discussed details. Recent research has shown that denial can also affect the original event memory when cognitive resources are strained during task execution. However,