loftus and palmer 1974

• conducted a laboratory study where they investigated how accurately participants could recall a video of a car crash
• they asked the pps leading questions
• used verbs smashed, collided, bumped, hit or contacted
• when they used more intense verbs like smashed pps recalled higher speeds than those who heard bumped
• this suggests that language can influence the way we remember things
• a week later when pps were asked a leading question about broken glass pps had a false memory that there was broken glass