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From individual to collective memory

Theoretical and empirical perspectives, A special issue of Memory

• Edited by AMANDA J. BARNIER, JOHN SUTTON

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• Price: $84.95
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 152
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 30th April 2008
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-852-6

About the Book

This special issue of Memory is devoted to discussions and investigations of social memory phenomena. Very often our memories of the past are of events we shared with others and very often we share in remembering with others -- when parents and children reminisce about significant family events, when spouses argue over details of an event they attended together, when colleagues remind one another of information relevant to an important group decision, or when complete strangers discuss a crime they happened to witness together. Psychology is at the heart of recent interdisciplinary efforts to understand the relationship between individual and group memory. In six theoretical reviews and four original empirical reports, this special issue addresses two major themes. First, how do groups operate to process information, especially memories; what are the costs and benefits of collaborating? Second, what are the pathways to, and between, individual and collective memory; how do groups shape individual memory; how does remembering with others influence later individual recall? This volume draws together leading theorists and researchers from cognitive, developmental, clinical, and cross-cultural psychology to propose sophisticated, novel and testable ways to conceptualise collective memory.

Table of Contents

Barnier, Sutton, Editorial – From Individual to Collective Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Hirst, Manier, Towards a Psychology of Collective Memory. Reese & Fivush, The Development of Collective Remembering. Harris, Paterson, Kemp, Collaborative Recall and Collective Memory: What Happens When We Remember Together. Blumen, Rajaram, Re-exposure and Retrieval Disruption During Group Collaboration as Well as Repeated Retrieval Influence Later Individual Recall. Ekeocha, Brennan, Collaborative Recall in Face-to-face and Electronic Groups. French, Garry, Mori, You Say Tomato? Collaborative Remembering Between Intimate Couples Leads to More False Memories Than Collaborative Remembering Between Strangers. Van Swol, Performance and Process in Collective and Individual Memory: The Role of Social Decision Schemes and Memory Bias in Collective Memory. Wessel, Moulds, Collective Memory: A Perspective From (Experimental) Clinical Psychology. Wang, On the Cultural Constitution of Collective Memory. Wertsch, Roediger, Collective Memory: Conceptual Foundations and Theoretical Approaches.