Many of these environmentally altering factors can be found during police interrogations and deployments. Questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a memory reconstruction of that event (Loftus & Palmer, 1974), and the choice of articles and verbs within certain questions can influence the listener's beliefs. Loftus and Palmer (1974) conducted experiments in which a total of 195 students viewed videos of car accidents and then answered questions about the events that occurred in the films. The question: "How fast were the cars going when they collided with each other?" elicited higher speed estimates than questions that used the verbs collide, bump, contact, or strike in place of smashed. In a retest 1 week later, subjects who had received the verb smashed were more likely to express a prejudice or stereotypical judgment and to answer "yes" to the question "Did you see any broken glass?", even if the broken glass did not was featured in the film (Loftus & Palmer, 1974). Definite articles can imply the existence of a reference for a noun and lead participants to believe in the existence of said noun, even if the noun was not present during the incident (Loftus & Zanni, 1975). This is present at an interlinguistic level. Fausey and Boroditsky (2011) examined English and Spanish speakers' descriptions of intentional and accidental events and their memory for the agents of these events.
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