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1Department of Psychology & Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs,Princeton University,Princeton,NJ 08544.acoman@princeton.eduhttps://www.princeton.edu/~acoman/Home.html.
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Mahr & Csibra (M&C) provide extensive evidence for the communicative function of episodic memory, suggesting that the malleability of human memory is in large part due to its communicative dimension. I argue that emphasizing the relational motivations involved in communication provides a more proximal explanation for why our memories are as malleable.
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