Collective Memory from a Psychological Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 438-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Hirst ◽  
Jeremy K. Yamashiro ◽  
Alin Coman
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Psychological Perspective

scholarly journals Collective memory as tool for intergroup conflict: The case of 9/11 commemoration

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 630-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader H. Hakim ◽  
Glenn Adams
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Reconstructive Memory ◽  
Level Versus ◽  
Cultural Tools

We apply a cultural psychology approach to collective memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In particular, we considered whether practices associated with commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks would promote vigilance (prospective affordance hypothesis) and misattribution of responsibility for the original 9/11 attacks (reconstructive memory hypothesis) in an ostensibly unrelated context of intergroup conflict during September 2015. In Study 1, vigilance toward Iran and misattribution of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks to Iranian sources was greater among participants whom we asked about engagement with 9/11 commemoration than among participants whom we asked about engagement with Labor Day observations. Results of Study 2 suggested that patterns of greater vigilance and misattribution as a function of instructions to recall engagement with 9/11 commemoration were more specifically true only of participants who reported actual engagement with hegemonic commemoration practices. From a cultural psychological perspective, 9/11 commemoration is a case of collective memory not merely because it implicates collective-level (versus personal) identities, but instead because it emphasizes mediation of motivation and action via engagement with commemoration practices and other cultural tools.

scholarly journals Collective Memory from a Psychological Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 737 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Hirst ◽  
Jeremy K. Yamashiro ◽  
Alin Coman
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Psychological Perspective

Appropriation des Savoirs et Mémoire Collective

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Sophie Richardot
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Factorial Analysis ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Memoire Collective ◽  
Obedience To Authority

The aim of this study is to understand to what extent soliciting collective memory facilitates the appropriation of knowledge. After being informed about Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority, students were asked to mention historical or contemporary events that came to mind while thinking about submission to authority. Main results of the factorial analysis show that the students who do not believe in the reproducibility of the experimental results oppose dramatic past events to a peaceful present, whereas those who do believe in the reproducibility of the results also mention dramatic contemporary events, thus linking past and present. Moreover, the students who do not accept the results for today personify historical events, whereas those who fully accept them generalize their impact. Therefore, according to their attitude toward this objet of knowledge, the students refer to two kinds of memory: a “closed memory,” which tends to relegate Milgram’s results to ancient history; and an “open memory,” which, on the contrary, transforms past events into a concept that helps them understand the present. Soliciting collective memory may contribute to the appropriation of knowledge provided the memory activated is an “open” one, linking past to present and going beyond the singularity of the event.

Review of The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective.

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1098-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Perspective
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