Abstract
ABSTRACT This commentary reviews two studies carried out by Stephen Ccci, PhD, and colleagues which concluded that brief fantasy exercises can create false memories in preschool children. They proffered source misattribution as the causative error in the production of false memories. These studies raise important issues about the credibility of “memory-creation” research with preschool children. There is a decided social cost in perpetuating information derived from studies that were not appropriately designed to adequately test either source misattribution theory or false memory creation. The lack of customary control groups was but one of the many methodological grounds on which these studies can be faulted. Further, the necessity of reconciling their formulations with an extensive literature supporting the beneficial effects of fantasy on childhood development was never addressed.
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