False memories are memory distortions in which people develop detailed memories of events that never happened. The aim of this research was to examine the susceptibility to false memories using the Deese – Roediger – McDermott (DRM) and misinformation paradigm and to assess confidence judgements of memory accuracy. In addition, the aim was to examine correlations between susceptibility to false memories and need for cognition, fantasy proneness and working memory capacity. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. In experiment 1 (DRM paradigm), 86 subjects (22 male and 64 female) participated with an average age of 21.27 years (SD = 4.52). In experiment 2 (misinformation paradigm), 98 subjects (23 male and 75 female) participated with an average age of 21.79 years (SD = 2.44). In the DRM paradigm, subjects equally recognized presented words and lures as previously viewed on word lists, but they recognized foil words to a significantly lesser extent as viewed on word lists. In addition, the subjects were equally confident when choosing presented words and lures, but were statistically significantly less confident when choosing foil words. In the misinformation paradigm, subjects chose the correct answer statistically significantly more often than misinformation, and chose misinformation more often than a distractor. In addition, subjects were statistically significantly more confident when they chose the correct answer than when they chose misinformation and a distractor. Among individual differences variables, there was a significant negative correlation between the need for cognition and lure recognition in the DRM paradigm. Other correlations were not significant in either the DRM or the misinformation paradigm. The obtained results suggest that the applied paradigms effectively create false memories and that subjects are at least to certain extent susceptible to such distortions regardless of measured individual differences.