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Anne-Catherine Defeldre
Research domains I am the project Manager of the "Affect, Decision-making and Self-Regulation" lab. As such, I am handling with different administrative tasks but I also am working on the research on episodic processing of emotional information, immediate affect, and decision making. Actually, I am interested in the effects on human (constructive and reconstructive) memory on further decision-making and associated emotions.
The paradigm I used allowed to show the occurrence of an error called "cryptomnesia", a.k.a. inadvertent or unconscious plagiarism: Participants were asked to generate and recall words in dyads. People often misremembered an item as previously generated by themselves whilst the correct source of generation was the other participant. Moreover, I investigated the phenomenal characteristics associated to correct and erroneous participant's recall (e.g. confidence, memory of emotional reactions, associated thoughts, or time of generation). Thus, I studied the effect of different variables on the occurrence and phenomenal characteristics of inadvertent plagiarism such as, individual differences (e.g. aging), retention intervals and repetition of testings as well as the occurrence of the phenomenon in everyday life situations.
Representative Publications Theses Defeldre, A.C. (2005). The study of phenomenal characteristics and appearing conditions of unconscious plagiarism attribution errors. Thesis, ULg. Defeldre, A.C. (2003). Cryptomnesic false memories: The influence of retention interval and repetition of testing. Master thesis, ULg.
Defeldre, A.C. (2001). Author attribution error: Cryptomnesia and its opposite. Graduate thesis, Ulg. Articles
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