Schustack and Anderson (in an elaboration of Sulin & Dooling, 1974) had subjects study stories about fictional figures that had parallels to well-known public figures. Thus, they might be told that Yoshida Ichiro was a Japanese politician of the 20th century who was "responsible for intensifying his country's involvement in a foreign conflict" and other such facts consistent with Lyndon Johnson. In the experimental condition subjects were told about the parallel and were reminded at test. They were asked to identify sentences which they had studied. They were tested with sentences that they had studied and that were true of the parallel as well as sentences that they had not studied and were true of the parallel. Subjects achieved 87.9% hits on the targets while showing only 17.9% false alarms on related targets. In one control condition they were not informed about a parallel at study or test and achieved 67.3% hits and 13.6% false alarms. Perhaps a better control was one in which they were given the name of a non-analogous public figureÑhere they achieved 71.6% hits and 12.6% false alarms.