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Maria S. Zaragoza is affiliated with Kent State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within the social sciences, psychology, and computer science. Zaragoza's work explores various subfields including sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and literature and literary theory.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as misinformation and its impacts, memory processes and influences, deception detection and forensic psychology, topic modeling, advanced text analysis techniques, media influence and health, and educational strategies and epistemologies.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Correcting Misinformation in News Stories: An Investigation of Correction Timing and Correction Durability, 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Correcting misinformation in news stories: An investigation of correction timing and correction durability., 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Does evaluating belief prior to its retraction influence the efficacy of later corrections?, 2020, Memory
  • Can suggestions of non-occurrence lead to claims that witnessed events did not happen?, 2020, The Journal of General Psychology
  • Correcting eyewitness suggestibility: does explanatory role predict resistance to correction?, 2020, Memory

Common coauthors in Zaragoza's publications include Patrick Rich, Jaruda Ithisuphalap, Blair E. Braun, Quin M. Chrobak, and Tanjeem Azad.

The frequent venues of publication for this scientist are:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Memory
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • The Journal of General Psychology

Best Publications

  • Misleading postevent information and memory for events: arguments and evidence against memory impairment hypotheses.

    Michael McCloskey;Maria Zaragoza

  • Source Misattributions and the Suggestibility of Eyewitness Memory

    Maria S. Zaragoza;Sean M. Lane

  • Repeated Exposure to Suggestion and the Creation of False Memories

    Maria S. Zaragoza;Karen J. Mitchell

  • Memory and testimony in the child witness

    Maria S. Zaragoza;John R. Graham;C.N. Hall Gordon

  • Developmental Differences in Eyewitness Suggestibility and Memory for Source.

    Jennifer K. Ackil;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Interviewing Witnesses: Forced Confabulation and Confirmatory Feedback Increase False Memories

    Maria S. Zaragoza;Kristie E. Payment;Jennifer K. Ackil;Sarah B. Drivdahl

  • Memorial Consequences of Forced Confabulation: Age Differences in Susceptibility to False Memories.

    Jennifer K. Ackil;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Misled subjects may know more than their performance implies

    Maria S. Zaragoza;John W. Koshmider

  • Misinformation Effects and the Suggestibility of Eyewitness Memory.

    Maria S. Zaragoza;Robert F. Belli;Kristie E. Payment

  • The continued influence of implied and explicitly stated misinformation in news reports

    Patrick R. Rich;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Intended and unintended effects of explicit warnings on eyewitness suggestibility: Evidence from source identification tests

    Karen L. Chambers;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Misleading postevent information and recall of the original event: Further evidence against the memory impairment hypothesis

    Maria S. Zaragoza;Michael McCloskey;Mary Jamis

  • The role of perceptual elaboration and individual differences in the creation of false memories for suggested events.

    Sarah B. Drivdahl;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Memory, Suggestibility, and Eyewitness Testimony in Children and Adults

    Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Inoculation or antidote? The effects of cognitive interview timing on false memory for forcibly fabricated events.

    Amina Memon;Maria Zaragoza;Brian R. Clifford;Brian R. Clifford;Lynsey Kidd

  • Postevent information and memory: Reply to Loftus, Schooler, and Wagenaar

    Michael McCloskey;Maria Zaragoza

  • Inventing stories: forcing witnesses to fabricate entire fictitious events leads to freely reported false memories.

    Quin M. Chrobak;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • REPEATED EXPOSURE TO SUGGESTION AND FALSE MEMORY : THE ROLE OF CONTEXTUAL VARIABILITY

    Karen J. Mitchell;Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Preschool children's susceptibility to memory impairment.

    Maria S. Zaragoza

  • Forensic applications of the MMPI-2.

    Yossef S. Ben-Porath;John R. Graham;Gordon C. N. Hall;Richard D. Hirschman

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen J. Mitchell
Karen J. Mitchell West Chester University
Michael McCloskey
Michael McCloskey Johns Hopkins University
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Siegfried L. Sporer
Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen
Dorthe Berntsen
Dorthe Berntsen Aarhus University
Carole Peterson
Carole Peterson Memorial University of Newfoundland
Lorraine E. Bahrick
Lorraine E. Bahrick Florida International University
Nancy M. Docherty
Nancy M. Docherty Kent State University
D. Stephen Lindsay
D. Stephen Lindsay University of Victoria
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall University of Oregon

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