Leading Questions- Loftus and Palmer
Participants watched a video of a car crash, they were then asked to complete a questionnaire on what they had seen. The questionnaires had one difference, the verb was changed on a key question. (How fast was the car going when it...in the other car- ‘hit, collided, smashed.’ They found that the verb effected participants estimates of the speed. This suggests that leading questions can influence participants of an event
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