The effects of repeated idea elaboration on unconscious plagiarism

Stark, Louisa Jayne; Perfect, Timothy J.

doi:10.3758/mc.36.1.65

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“…Thus, a clear prediction arising from the previous work of Stark and Perfect (Perfect & Stark, 2008b;Stark et al, 2005;Stark & Perfect, 2006, 2008 tested here is that it should be possible to show a double-dissociation between plagiarism on a recall-own task, which is driven by idea improvement, and plagiarism on a generate-new task, which is driven by idea valence. In the present study, participants generated ideas with a partner across two areas of knowledge: environment and health.…”

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Source credibility and idea improvement have independent effects on unconscious plagiarism errors in recall and generate-new tasks.

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Jones

2009

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Unconscious plagiarism occurs when people try to generate new ideas or when they try to recall their own ideas from among a set generated by a group. In this study, the factors that independently influence these two forms of plagiarism error were examined. Participants initially generated solutions to real-world problems in 2 domains of knowledge in collaboration with a confederate presented as an expert in 1 domain. Subsequently, the participant generated improvements to half of the ideas from each person. Participants returned 1 day later to recall either their own ideas or their partner's ideas and to complete a generate-new task. A double dissociation was observed. Generate-new plagiarism was driven by partner expertise but not by idea improvement, whereas recall plagiarism was driven by improvement but not expertise. This improvement effect on recall plagiarism was seen for the recall-own but not the recall-partner task, suggesting that the increase in recall-own plagiarism is due to mistaken idea ownership, not source confusion.

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Source credibility and idea improvement have independent effects on unconscious plagiarism errors in recall and generate-new tasks.

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2009

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“…These results could also expand the scope of recommendations for the development of representational communication and design tools (Kulkarni et al, 2000) as well as specific design education (Booth et al, 2016). Further work is needed to examine other task relevant impacts of mode of representation, such as long-term recall (Stark & Perfect, 2008) or persuasiveness (Babapour, 2016;Pei et al, 2011).…”

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Understanding representation: Contrasting gesture and sketching in design through dual-process theory

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2021

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“…Our previous explanation of the idea-improvement effect in recall plagiarism has centred on a source-monitoring account, arguing that the process of idea-improvement resembles that used in initial idea generation (Stark, Perfect, & Newstead, 2005: Stark & Perfect, 2006, 2007, 2008. However, the notion of participants using personal relevance as a cue is also compatible with a source-monitoring account: the essence of a source-monitoring account is that memories are multi-dimensional and people weight the evidence from different dimensions to make attributions about source (Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay, 1993).…”

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Unconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasons

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Stark²

2012

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Previous research has shown that if people improve other's ideas, they subsequently unconsciously plagiarise them at a dramatically higher rate than if they imagine them, or simply hear them again. It has been claimed that this occurs because improvement resembles the process of generation, and that these are confused during retrieval. However, an alternate possibility is tested here: plagiarism may increases because improvement increases personal relevance of the ideas. Two studies were conducted in which there was an initial generation phase, followed by an elaboration phase in which participants imagined the previous ideas, improved them for their own use, or improved them for an older adult's use. One week later, participants attempted to recall their own ideas, and generated new solutions to the previous problems. In both studies, improvement of doubled the rate of subsequent plagiarism in the recall own task, but this effect was not mediated by whether people improved ideas for their own use, of for use by someone else. Improvement had no effect on plagiarism in the generate-new task. These studies therefore rule out personal relevance, or personal semantics as the source of the improvement effect in unconscious plagiarism.

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The effects of repeated idea elaboration on unconscious plagiarism

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Source credibility and idea improvement have independent effects on unconscious plagiarism errors in recall and generate-new tasks.

Source credibility and idea improvement have independent effects on unconscious plagiarism errors in recall and generate-new tasks.

Understanding representation: Contrasting gesture and sketching in design through dual-process theory

Unconscious Plagiarism in Recall: Attribution to the Self, but not for Self-Relevant Reasons

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