Michael A. Briggs
Ohio University
3 Papers
56 Citations
Michael A. Briggs is an academic researcher from Ohio University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Need for cognition & Recall. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications.
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The Potential for Bias in Videotaped Confessions1
TL;DR: This article showed that confessor-focus, but not equal focus (on the confessor and interrogator), videotapes produce judgments of greater voluntariness compared to the more traditional audiotape and transcript formats.
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Need for Cognition, Causal Processing, and Memory for Behavior
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that individuals high in the need for cognition exhibit better recall for a target person's behaviors than individuals low in need of cognition, particularly when those behaviors are inconsistent with an initial impression of the person.
Need for Cognition and the Perception of Ongoing Behavior
TL;DR: This paper found that individuals who were presumably inclined to want to understand and to deliberate about their environment (i.e., were high in need for cognition) unitized the behavior sequence into more actions and subsequently recalled more action-related details from the sequence than those who were not so inclined, and this pattern of results provides further support for the assumption that the unitization process funclions to regulate informat...