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Wang, J., Otgaar, H., Smeets, T., Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 and Zhou, C. (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. and Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (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

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Otgaar, H., Wang, J., Fränken, J-P. and Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (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

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Otgaar, H., Romeo, T., Ramakers, N. and Howe, M. L. (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. and Merckelbach, H. (2017). What Drives False Memories in Psychopathology? A Case for Associative Activation. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(6), pp. 1048-1069. doi: 10.1177/2167702617724424

Howe, M. L. and Garner, S. R. (2017). Can false memories prime alternative solutions to ambiguous problems?. Memory, doi: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1332226

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Brackmann, N. and van Helvoort, D. (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. and Muris, P. (2017). Maltreatment Increases Spontaneous False Memories but Decreases Suggestion-induced False Memories in Children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12177

Otgaar, H., Moldoveanu, G., Wang, J. and Howe, M. L. (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. and Nahouli, Z. (2016). Undermining belief in false memories leads to less efficient problem-solving behaviour. Memory, doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1249888

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

Hellenthal, M. V., Howe, M. L. and Knott, L. (2016). It Must Be My Favourite Brand: Using Retroactive Brand Replacements in Doctored Photographs to Influence Brand Preferences. Applied Cognitive Psychology, doi: 10.1002/acp.3271

Brackmann, N., Otgaar, H., Sauerland, M. and Howe, M. L. (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

Lew, A. R. and Howe, M. L. (2016). Out of Place, Out of Mind: Schema-Driven False Memory Effects for Object-Location Bindings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(3), pp. 404-421. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000317

Bland, C., Howe, M. L. and Knott, L. (2016). Discrete emotion-congruent false memories in the DRM paradigm. Emotion, 16(5), pp. 611-619. doi: 10.1037/emo0000153

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Smeets, T. and Wang, J. (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

Baugerud, G. A., Howe, M. L., Magnussen, S. and Melinder, A. (2016). Maltreated and non-maltreated children's true and false memories of neutral and emotional word lists in the DRM task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, pp. 102-110. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.007

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Brackmann, N. and Smeets, T. (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

Howe, M. L., Wilkinson, S., Garner, S. R. and Ball, L. J. (2016). On the adaptive function of children's and adults' false memories. Memory, 24(8), pp. 1062-1077. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1068335

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Clarke, A., Wang, J. and Merckelbach, H. (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

Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Threadgold, E. and Ball, L. J. (2015). Priming Analogical Reasoning with False Memories. Memory and Cognition, 43(6), pp. 879-895. doi: 10.3758/s13421-015-0513-7

Howe, M. L. and Knott, L. (2015). The fallibility of memory in judicial processes: Lessons from the past and their modern consequences. Memory, 23(5), pp. 633-656. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1010709

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., van Beers, J., van Hoof, R., Bronzwaer, N. and Smeets, T. (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. and Wang, J. (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. and Moritz, S. (2014). The production of spontaneous false memories across childhood.. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 121, pp. 28-41. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.11.019

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Garner, S. R. and Howe, M. L. (2014). False memories from survival processing make better primes for problem-solving. Memory, 22(1), pp. 9-18. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.759975

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Howe, M. L. (2013). Memory lessons from the courtroom: Reflections on being a memory expert on the witness stand. Memory, 21(5), pp. 576-583. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.725735

Howe, M. L. and 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. and Raymaekers, L. (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. and de Ruiter, C. (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

Conway, M. A. and Howe, M. L. (2013). Memory and the law: Insights from case studies. Memory, 21(5), pp. 545-546. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2013.806045

Howe, M. L. (2013). Memory development: implications for adults recalling childhood experiences in the courtroom. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 14(12), pp. 869-876. doi: 10.1038/nrn3627

Howe, M. L. (2013). Securing the future by remembering the past: But just when does this past and future begin to develop?. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2(4), pp. 237-239. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.09.002

Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R. and Patel, M. (2013). The positive consequences of false memories. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 31(5), pp. 652-665. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2078

Howe, M. L., Toth, S. L. and Cicchetti, D. (2012). Can Maltreated Children Inhibit True and False Memories for Emotional Information?. Child Development, 82(3), pp. 967-981. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01585.x

Otgaar, H., Peters, M. and 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

Dewhurst, S., Howe, M. L., Berry, D. M. and Knott, L. (2012). Test-induced priming increases false recognition in older but not younger children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(1), pp. 101-107. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.08.006

Knott, L., Dewhurst, S. and Howe, M. L. (2012). What Factors Underlie Associative and Categorical Memory Illusions? The Roles of Backward Associative Strength and Interitem Connectivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(1), pp. 229-239. doi: 10.1037/a0025201

Howe, M. L. (2011). The Adaptive Nature of Memory and Its Illusions. Current Directions In Psychological Science, 20(5), pp. 312-315. doi: 10.1177/0963721411416571

Dewhurst, S., Knott, L. and Howe, M. L. (2011). Test-Induced Priming Impairs Source Monitoring Accuracy in the DRM Procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(4), pp. 1001-1007. doi: 10.1037/a0022961

Knott, L., Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C. and Dewhurst, S. (2011). The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109(1), pp. 91-108. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.01.001

Howe, M. L. and Malone, C. (2011). Mood-congruent true and false memory: Effects of depression. Memory, 19(2), pp. 192-201. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2010.544073

Howe, M. L. and Wilkinson, S. (2011). Using story contexts to bias children's true and false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108(1), pp. 77-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.06.009

Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Charlesworth, M. and Knott, L. (2010). A brighter side to memory illusions: False memories prime children's and adults' insight-based problem solving. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108(2), pp. 383-393. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.08.012

Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Dewhurst, S. and Ball, L. J. (2010). Can false memories prime problem solutions?. Cognition, 117(2), pp. 176-181. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.009

Wimmer, M. C. and Howe, M. L. (2010). Are children's memory illusions created differently from those of adults? Evidence from levels-of-processing and divided attention paradigms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107(1), pp. 31-49. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.03.003

Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Howe, M. L. and Toth, S. L. (2010). The Effects of Maltreatment and Neuroendocrine Regulation on Memory Performance. Child Development, 81(5), pp. 1504-1519. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01488.x

Howe, M. L. and Derbish, M. H. (2010). On the susceptibility of adaptive memory to false memory illusions. Cognition, 115(2), pp. 252-267. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.016

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Wimmer, M. C. and Howe, M. L. (2009). The development of automatic associative processes and children's false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104(4), pp. 447-465. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.006

Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F. and Howe, M. L. (2009). Trichotomous Processes in Early Memory Development, Aging, and Neurocognitive Impairment: A Unified Theory. Psychological Review, 116(4), pp. 783-832. doi: 10.1037/a0016963

Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., Gagnon, N. and Plumpton, S. (2009). An associative-activation theory of children's and adults' memory illusions. Journal of Memory and Language, 60(2), pp. 229-251. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.10.002

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Howe, M. L., Gagnon, N. and Thouas, L. (2008). Development of false memories in bilingual children and adults. Journal of Memory and Language, 58(3), pp. 669-681. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.09.001

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Book Section

Otgaar, H., Houben, S. and Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2018). Methods of Studying False Memory. In: Research methods in human memory. . New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138217959