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Childhood Sexual Abuse
False recall of childhood sexual abuse not associated with self-reported traumatic experiences
November 3rd, 2005
Scientists found that false recall of childhood sexual abuse in women is associated with fantasy proneness, but not self-reported traumatic experiences. "Extending a strategy previously used by Clancy, Schacter, McNally, and Pitman (2000)," researchers from The Netherlands "administered a neutral and a trauma-related version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm to a sample of women reporting recovered (n=23) or repressed memories (n=16) of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), women reporting having always remembered their abuse (n=55), and women reporting no history of abuse (n=20)." E. Geraerts and colleagues "found that individuals reporting recovered...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-11-03)
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