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Otgaar, H., Schell-Leugers, J. M., Howe, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 , de la Fuente Vilar, A., Houben, S. & Merckelbach, H.view all authors (2025). The link between false confessions, suggestibility, and compliance: A review using experimental and field studies. Applied Police Briefings, 1(3), pp. 50-52. doi: 10.22215/apb.v1i3.5149

Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Otgaar, H. (2024). The unique and remarkable contributions to our understanding of memory that is the legacy of Martin A. Conway. Memory, 32(6), p. 655. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2376795

Otgaar, H. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2024). Testing memory. Memory, 32(3), pp. 293-295. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2325293

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Dodier, O. (2023). Realistic Guidelines on Expert Witness Work Concerning Memory. Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 4, article number 100117. doi: 10.1016/j.fsiml.2023.100117

Wang, J., Otgaar, H. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2023). Creating False Rewarding Memories Guides Novel Decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(1), pp. 52-67. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001283

Otgaar, H., Mangiulli, I., Battista, F. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571view all authors (2023). External and Internal Influences Yield Similar Memory Effects: The Role of Deception and Suggestion. Frontiers in Psychology: Forensic and Legal Psychology, 14, article number 1081528. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1081528

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Patihis, L. , Mangiulli, I., Dodier, O., Huntjens, R., Krackow, E., Jelicic, M. & Lynn, S. J.view all authors (2023). The Neuroscience of Dissociative Amnesia and Repressed Memory: Premature Conclusions and Unanswered Questions. Legal and Criminological Psychology,

Otgaar, H. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2023). Memory develops. Memory, 31(3), doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2172538

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Dodier, O. (2022). What Can Expert Witnesses Reliably Say About Memory in the Courtroom?. Forensic Science International, 3, article number 100106. doi: 10.1016/j.fsiml.2022.100106

Otgaar, H., Dodier, O., Garry, M. , Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Loftus, E. & Lynn, S.view all authors (2022). Oversimplifications and Misrepresentations in the Repressed Memory Debate: A Reply to Ross. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 32(1), pp. 116-126. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2022.2133043

Otgaar, H., Moldoveanu, M. G., Melis, V. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571view all authors (2022). A New Method to Implant False Autobiographical Memories: Blind Implantation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(4), pp. 580-586. doi: 10.1037/mac0000028

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 , Dong, Q. & Zhou, C.view all authors (2022). Self-enhanced False Memory across the Life Span. The Journals of Gerontology Series B, 77(9), pp. 1645-1653. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac020

Mangiulli, I., Hover, N., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Otgaar, H.view all authors (2021). Crime-Related Scenarios Do not Lead to Superior Memory Performance in the Survival Processing Paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(3), pp. 387-399. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2021.2010737

Wang, J., Smeets, T., Otgaar, H. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571view all authors (2021). Manipulating Memory Associations Minimizes Avoidance Behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, article number 746161. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.746161

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Cheng, S.view all authors (2021). Self-referential False Associations: A Self-enhanced Constructive Effect for Verbal but Not Pictorial Stimuli. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(9), pp. 1512-1524. doi: 10.1177/17470218211009772

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Cheng, S.view all authors (2021). Self-referential False Associations: A Self-enhanced Constructive Effect for Verbal but Not Pictorial Stimuli. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(9), pp. 1512-1524. doi: 10.1177/17470218211009772

Schopen, K., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Muris, P.view all authors (2021). Effects of Forewarnings on Children’s and Adults’ Spontaneous False Memories. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19(2), pp. 177-197. doi: 10.1080/17405629.2021.1904877

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Patihis, L. (2021). What Science Tells Us About False and Repressed Memories. Memory, 30(1), pp. 16-21. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1870699

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Dodier, O. , Lilienfeld, S., Loftus, E., Lynn, S., Merckelbach, H. & Patihis, L.view all authors (2021). Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(2), pp. 454-460. doi: 10.1177/1745691621990628

Otgaar, H., Schell-Leugers, J., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 , De La Fuente Vilar, A., Houben, S. & Merckelbach, H.view all authors (2021). The Link Between Suggestibility, Compliance, and False Confessions: A Review using Experimental and Field Studies. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(2), pp. 445-455. doi: 10.1002/acp.3788

Otgaar, H., Wang, J., Dodier, O. , Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Lilienfeld, S., Loftus, E., Lynn, S., Merckelbach, H. & Patihis, L.view all authors (2020). Skirting the Issue: What Does Believing in Repression Mean?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(10), pp. 2005-2006. doi: 10.1037/xge0000982

Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Otgaar, H. (2020). Theoretically important failures to reject the null hypothesis: introduction to a special section of Memory. Memory, 28(7), pp. 837-838. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1794669

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Mangiulli, I. & Bücken, C.view all authors (2020). The Impact of False Denials on Forgetting and False Memory. Cognition, 202, article number 104322. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104322

Otgaar, H., Wang, J., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 , Lilienfeld, S., Loftus, E., Lynn, S., Merckelbach, H. & Patihis, L.view all authors (2020). Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Is Widespread: A Comment on Brewin, Li, Ntarantana, Unsworth, and McNeilis (2019). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(10), pp. 1996-2000. doi: 10.1037/xge0000721

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Patihis, L. , Merckelbach, H., Lynn, S. J., Lilienfeld, S. & Loftus, E.view all authors (2019). The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(6), pp. 1072-1095. doi: 10.1177/1745691619862306

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Zhou, C.view all authors (2019). A Self-Reference False Memory Effect in the DRM Paradigm: Evidence from Eastern and Western Samples. Memory and Cognition, 47(1), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.3758/s13421-018-0851-3

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Muris, P. & Mercklebach, H.view all authors (2019). Associative Activation as a Mechanism Underlying False Memory Formation. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(2), pp. 191-195. doi: 10.1177/2167702618807189

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Bisback, A. , Smeets, T. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571view all authors (2019). The Consequences of Implicit and Explicit Beliefs on Food Preferences. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory Research, and Practice, 6(4), pp. 371-385. doi: 10.1037/cns0000203

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Muris, P. & Merkelbach, H.view all authors (2019). Dealing with False Memories in Children and Adults: Recommendations for the Legal Arena. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6(1), pp. 87-93. doi: 10.1177/2372732218818584

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Smeets, T. , Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Zhou, C.view all authors (2019). Manipulating Memory Associations Changes Decision-making Preferences in a Preconditioning Task. Consciousness and Cognition, 69, pp. 103-112. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.01.016

Otgaar, H., Bücken, C., Bogaard, G. , Wade, K., Hopwood, A., Scoboria, A. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571view all authors (2019). Nonbelieved Memories in The False Memory Archive. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8(4), pp. 429-438. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.07.003

Otgaar, H., Wang, J., Fränken, J-P. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571view all authors (2018). Believing Does Not Equal Remembering: The Effects of Social Feedback and Objective False Evidence on Belief in Occurrence, Belief in Accuracy, and Recollection. Acta Psychologica, 191, pp. 271-280. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.10.009

Otgaar, H. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2018). When children’s testimonies are used as evidence: how children’s accounts may impact child custodial decisions. Journal of Child Custody, 15(4), pp. 263-267. doi: 10.1080/15379418.2018.1568721

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Merckelbach, H. & Muris, P.view all authors (2018). Who is the better eyewitness? Sometimes Adults but at Other Times Children. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(5), pp. 378-385. doi: 10.1177/0963721418770998

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 , Lippe, F. & Smeets, T.view all authors (2018). The nature and consequences of false memories for visual stimuli. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, pp. 124-135. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2018.04.007

Otgaar, H., Romeo, T., Ramakers, N. & Howe, M. L.view all authors (2017). Forgetting having denied: The "amnesic" consequences of denial. Memory and Cognition, 46(4), pp. 520-529. doi: 10.3758/s13421-017-0781-5

Otgaar, H., Muris, P., Howe, M. L. & Merckelbach, H.view all authors (2017). What Drives False Memories in Psychopathology? A Case for Associative Activation. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(6), pp. 1048-1069. doi: 10.1177/2167702617724424

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Brackmann, N. & van Helvoort, D.view all authors (2017). Eliminating Age Differences in Children’s and Adults’ Suggestibility and Memory Conformity Effects. Developmental Psychology, 53(5), pp. 962-970. doi: 10.1037/dev0000298

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. & Muris, P. (2017). Maltreatment Increases Spontaneous False Memories but Decreases Suggestion-induced False Memories in Children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35(3), pp. 376-391. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12177

Otgaar, H., Moldoveanu, G., Wang, J. & Howe, M. L.view all authors (2016). Exploring the Consequences of Nonbelieved Memories in the DRM Paradigm. Memory, 25(7), pp. 922-933. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1272701

Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. , Smeets, T., Merckelbach, H. & Nahouli, Z.view all authors (2016). Undermining belief in false memories leads to less efficient problem-solving behaviour. Memory, 25(7), pp. 910-921. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1249888

Otgaar, H., de Ruiter, C., Howe, M. L. , Hoetmer, L. & van Reekum, P.view all authors (2016). A Case Concerning Children's False Memories of Abuse: Recommendations Regarding Expert Witness Work. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 24(3), pp. 365-378. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2016.1230924

Brackmann, N., Otgaar, H., Sauerland, M. & Howe, M. L.view all authors (2016). The Impact of Testing on the Formation of Children's and Adults' False Memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(5), pp. 785-794. doi: 10.1002/acp.3254

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Smeets, T. & Wang, J.view all authors (2016). Denial-Induced Forgetting: False Denials Undermine Memory, But External Denials Undermine Belief. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(2), pp. 168-175. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.04.002

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Brackmann, N. & Smeets, T.view all authors (2016). The Malleability of Developmental Trends in Neutral and Negative Memory Illusions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(1), pp. 31-55. doi: 10.1037/xge0000127

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Clarke, A. , Wang, J. & Merckelbach, H.view all authors (2015). What if you went to the police and accused your uncle of abuse? Misunderstandings concerning the benefits of memory distortion: A commentary on Fernandez (2015). Consciousness and Cognition, 33, pp. 286-290. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.01.015

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., van Beers, J. , van Hoof, R., Bronzwaer, N. & Smeets, T.view all authors (2015). The positive ramifications of false memories using a perceptual closure task. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(1), pp. 43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.12.001

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Memon, A. & Wang, J.view all authors (2014). The development of differential mnemonic effects of false denials and forced confabulations. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 32(6), pp. 718-731. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2148

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Peters, M. , Smeets, T. & Moritz, S.view all authors (2014). The production of spontaneous false memories across childhood.. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 121(1), pp. 28-41. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.11.019

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Smeets, T. & Garner, S. R.view all authors (2014). Developmental trends in adaptive memory. Memory, 22(1), pp. 103-117. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2013.781653

Otgaar, H. & Howe, M. L. (2014). What kind of memory has evolution wrought?: Introductory Article for the Special Issue of Memory: Adaptive memory: The emergence and nature of proximate mechanisms. Memory, 22(1), pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2013.800355

Howe, M. L. & Otgaar, H. (2013). Proximate Mechanisms and the Development of Adaptive Memory. Current Directions In Psychological Science, 22(1), pp. 16-22. doi: 10.1177/0963721412469397

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Peters, M. , Sauerland, M. & Raymaekers, L.view all authors (2013). Developmental trends in different types of spontaneous false memories: Implications for the legal field. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 31(5), pp. 666-682. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2076

Thijssen, J., Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L. & de Ruiter, C.view all authors (2013). Emotional true and false memories in children with callous-unemotional traits. Cognition and Emotion, 27(4), pp. 761-768. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2012.744300

Otgaar, H., Peters, M. & Howe, M. L. (2012). Dividing Attention Lowers Children's but Increases Adults' False Memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(1), pp. 204-210. doi: 10.1037/a0025160

Howe, M. L., Candel, I., Otgaar, H. , Malone, C. & Wimmer, M. C.view all authors (2010). Valence and the development of immediate and long-term false memory illusions. Memory, 18(1), pp. 58-75. doi: 10.1080/09658210903476514

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Knott, L. ORCID: 0000-0003-2897-3245, Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571, Wang, J. & Otgaar, H.view all authors (2024). The Development of Adaptive Memory During Childhood. In: Toglia, M. P., Otgaar, H., Altarriba, J. & Erickson, B.view all authors (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Advances in Understanding Adaptive Memory. (pp. 260-276). New York, USA: Oxford University Press.

Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Otgaar, H. (2022). The Counterintuitive Course of False Memory Development During Childhood. In: Courage, M. & Cowan, N. (Eds.), The Development of Memory in Infancy and Childhood. . New York: Psychology Press. doi: 10.4324/9781003016533-15

Otgaar, H., Houben, S. & Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2018). Methods of Studying False Memory. In: Research methods in human memory. . New York: Routledge.

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 & Bücken, C. The Development and Correction of Children’s False Memories. In: Goodman, G. (Ed.), The handbook of child witnesses: Improving psychological science and legal practice. . Washington, DC, USA: American Psychological Association.