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正确答案：B
解析：文章第六段说到“Interviews conducted with these methods often suggested that the child had been mistreated, so many of the children who reported abuse through the new methods were inventing the stories.”采用新方法对儿童进行的访谈经常暗示儿童他们曾经受到虐待，所以很多受到新方法影响而声称受到虐待的儿童其实是在编故事。那么，本题说“80年代中期，很多美国孩子倾向于编造受虐待的故事来取乐”是不符合文章内容的，事实上他们是受到了外来因素的影响。