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average. Participants were then
20 after the collision. (5) the fact that there was no broken glass, three times as
many participants in the "smashed" group as in the "contacted" group reported seeing
the nonexistent broken glass.
(6)
Clearly, the participants in this study had not stored a video-like memory of the
accident that they could play back at will.) They had stored a rough impression of
25 the accident and, when asked to recall specifics, filled in details based on information
available to them in the present. For example, participants in the "smashed" group
reconstructed their memory so that it was consistent with a more violent collision,
with the cars going faster and the broken glass that often results from such a collision.
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