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The Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995) creates strong false memories of critical words that are actually never studied but are associated to a semantically-related studied word list. The fact that the created memory illusion is quite powerful has led to the frequent use of this paradigm to investigate effects of different variables on this illusion and to develop DRM lists in different languages. The present study aimed to develop Turkish emotional DRM lists including positive, negative and neutral words that are matched on arousal and on several other word characteristics. Ten DRM lists were created in each emotion condition (negative, positive, neutral); each list included ten list words related to one critical lure. Recognition memory test was used to measure the magnitude of false memories. Analyses of participants’ hit and false alarm rates revealed that similar levels of false memories were created in each emotion condition. Levels of false memories for each critical lure were then calculated separately. The data showed that each DRM list was able to produce comparable levels of false recognition when compared to previous studies in the literature. Sixty-six percent of the negative critical lures, 65% of the positive critical lures and 58% of the neutral critical lures were recognized by the participants as old words. We believe that these emotional DRM lists would be useful for researchers working in different areas of psychology who are interested in investigating emotion and false memories in native Turkish-speakers.

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