In the "false fame" experiments,participants were asked to read through a list of names,merely pronouncing each name out loud.Later,participants were shown a second list,and asked which names on this list were the names of the famous people.Some of these names were utterly fictitious but were actually repeats of names that had appeared on the earlier (pronunciation)list.People were most likely to identify a fictitious name as famous if

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Participants were more likely to mistakenly identify a fictitious name as famous if there was a longer time interval between the pronunciation task and the fame judgment task. This is because the delay can cause memory confusion, leading individuals to misattribute the familiarity of the name to fame rather than to the prior exposure in the experiment.

In the "False Fame" Experiments,participants Were Asked to Read Through