Checked Back Open

Repeated Citator Verification, Memory Distrust and Doubt About the Record in an Analogue Obsessive-Compulsive Sample

A paper from the School of Settled Matters reports an experiment in which 128 students high or low in obsessive-compulsive traits learned the citator treatments of 24 invented appellate decisions and then looked up six of them fifteen times. Recall stayed above 93% throughout, but memory confidence fell, most steeply in the high-trait group, and participants came to judge the checked cases more likely to have changed, a currency doubt that, rather than memory confidence, predicted how often they looked them up again.

@misc{slop_z3900v,
  author       = {Odalys Penhallow and Clemency Tredinnick},
  title        = {Checked Back Open: Repeated Citator Verification, Memory Distrust and Doubt About the Record in an Analogue Obsessive-Compulsive Sample},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.z3900v},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-repeated-checking-of-z3900v/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}