Remembering the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany

Epistemic and social consequences of perceived memory sharedness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905175
AutoresRené Kopietz (University of Münster, autor de correspondencia), Gerald Echterhoff (0000-0002-7395-5313, University of Münster)
Año2014
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas298-313
Fecha de publicación2014-06-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698014530620
OpenAlexW2020069959
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas40

According to shared-reality theory, the sharing of memories satisfies the need for confident knowledge (an epistemic consequence) and belongingness (a social-affiliative consequence). In two experiments, German participants remembered a public event with collective importance—the 2006 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in Germany. We examined whether inducing perceptions of sharedness increases confidence in one’s memory of the event (an epistemic consequence) and social identification with the national group (an affiliative consequence). Because episodic, but not semantic, memories entail the reconstruction of the social context of the original experience, they should elicit feelings of shared relevance to a greater extent than do semantic memories. Consistent with our rationale, memory confidence, perceptions of shared relevance, and identification with Germany were enhanced after participants recalled episodic (vs semantic) memories regarding the World Cup. In Experiment 2, we added a more direct manipulation of perceived sharedness: participants were asked to think about people with similar (vs dissimilar) memories. We found that memory confidence, perceptions of shared relevance, and identification with Germany were greater in the high sharedness conditions. In both experiments, the effects on memory confidence and identification were mediated by perceived shared relevance. Overall, the findings demonstrate important cognitive and social consequences of collective memory

Autobiographical memory · Belongingness · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Collective memory · Context (archaeology · Episodic memory · Feeling · Football · Identification (biology · Ingroups and outgroups · Perception · Relevance (law · Semantic memory · Social memory · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology