“…This is consistent with previous work demonstrating that repeated checking leads to distrust in memory ( Van den Hout & Kindt, 2003a, b, 2004Coles et al, 2006;Radomsky, Gilchrist et al, 2006). However, the decline in memory accuracy for the knobs checked is inconsistent with findings by Kindt (2003a, b, 2004), but consistent with results from Radomsky, Gilchrist et al (2006) and Coles et al (2006), and supports the idea that repeated checking may reduce the salience of encoded threat-relevant information, and subsequent recall of these events.…”