False memory among digital natives and digital immigrants in online and offline message contexts.
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2023-06-29
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Theory suggests that differences in information processing behaviour for digital natives and digital immigrants exist. Online information processing behaviour is associated with different reading strategies than offline information, which can result in differences in cognitive abilities. This study investigated if the message context influences the number of false memories that are created and the reading speed, and if this differs for generations. An online experiment was conducted in which digital natives and digital immigrants were presented with either messages that were presented in a social media message context (online) or in a neutral message context (offline), after which they were asked to do the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task. Results did not show significant effects of generation or message context on the number of false memories. However, digital natives did read faster than digital immigrants, but differences in message context on reading speed were not found.
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