¿Son los criterios de realidad válidos para clasificar y discernir entre memorias de hechos auto-experimentados y de eventos vistos en vídeo?

Abstract

Statement content analysis based on reality criteria (Undeutsch hypothesis) has revealed as a valid instrument to discriminate between memories of self-experienced events (real-life) and fabricated memories of accounts. Nevertheless, much of the available scientific evidence provides from experiments where real-life memories were substituted by memories of events seen video (non-experienced). As for knowing if reality criteria do discriminate between self-experienced memories and fabricated memories of events seen in a video, the testimony of 30 adult participants was obtained about an autobiographic event (self-experienced) and about of an event seen on video (fabricated). The results showed that the total CBCA (Criteria-Based Content Analysis) criteria, as well as several reality criteria discriminated between both memories in line with the Undeutsch hypothesis. Nonetheless, other reality criteria did not discriminate, were unproductive or discriminated against the hypothesis. A similar pattern of outcomes was found for the classification rate of the selfexperienced memory. The implications of the results for forensic practice are discussed.