Recent research yielded the surprising finding that questioning an eyewitness immediately after they view an event
A) decreased source monitoring
B) increased the misinformation effect
C) decreased interference
D) increased self-referent encoding

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The research findings suggest that questioning an eyewitness immediately after they view an event can increase the misinformation effect, which means their memory can be distorted by misleading information provided during the questioning process. This can result in the eyewitness misremembering details of the event that were not originally present.

Recent Research Yielded the Surprising Finding That Questioning an Eyewitness