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Participants listened to a story based on several underlying scripts. Recognition memory was tested the same day and 24 hours later. If participants believed an action was stated they made remember/know judgements. For remember judgements subjects also indicated the types of details they were recollecting. There were more hits and more conscious recollections for atypical actions than for typical actions and memories of atypical actions were also more likely to include details about thoughts and emotions. About half of the false memories were experienced as conscious recollections and the content of these conscious recollections were similar for true and false memories. These results demonstrate that scripts play an important role in influencing the subjective experience of memory. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.