Cognitive social psychology and historical perspectives on socially shared cognition

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1004-1005
Author(s):  
Michael Siegal
1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Thompson ◽  
Gary Alan Fine

In this article, we review 4 classes of models of socially shared cognition and behavior: supraindividual models, information-processing models, communication models, and social interaction models. Our review draws on research and theory in social psychology, sociology, and organization behavior. We conclude that these innovative perspectives on socially shared behavior represent a new approach to the study of groups and are distinct from traditional models of the group mind and crowd behavior. The key processes implicated in these models focus on the potency of immediate interaction, reciprocal influence processes between individuals and groups, goal-directed behavior, negotiated processing of information and ideas, and the maintenance and enhancement of social identity. This approach to socially shared understanding is not antagonistic toward the analysis of individual-level processes but rather maintains that individual-level processes are necessary but not sufficient to build a social psychology of shared understanding.


1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
N E Branki ◽  
E A Edmonds ◽  
R M Jones

Author(s):  
Holly Arrow ◽  
Alexander Garinther

This chapter explores how people “think together” in dyads, small groups, and larger collectives via mutual influence that organizes shared attention and intention, collectively constructs and validates meaning, and collaboratively develops and adjusts distributed networks of learning, memory, and forgetting. It weaves together a selective review of psychological literature on socially shared and situated cognition with applications to the shared and unshared memories of survivors and killers in post-genocide Rwanda. The process and content of convergent and divergent memories about a devastating collective experience helps illuminate the practical psychological functions served by socially shared cognition.


1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Cradock ◽  
Lauren B. Resnick ◽  
John M. Levine ◽  
Stephanie D. Teasley

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