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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Communication Studies

Background:

  • Collective memory is crucial for community cohesion.
  • Psychological research on collective memory is a recent development.
  • Remembering is often viewed as a communicative act.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how communicative remembering shapes collective memory.
  • To investigate the role of communication in shared memory formation and selective forgetting.
  • To understand the link between dyadic interactions and large-scale memory convergence.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on collective memory and communication.
  • Analysis of retrieval-induced forgetting in conversational contexts.
  • Examination of how dyadic memory processes scale to social networks.

Main Results:

  • Communicative remembering can lead to shared memories among individuals.
  • The selective nature of communication can induce collective forgetting.
  • Dyadic interactions influence memory convergence within social networks.

Conclusions:

  • A bottom-up approach explains how individual memories become collective.
  • Communication is a key mechanism in the formation and maintenance of collective memory.
  • Understanding dyadic communication is vital for understanding community-level memory phenomena.