Forgetting history
The mnemonic consequences of listening to selective recountings of history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles B Stone (0000-0002-1655-007X, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, corresponding author), Theofilos Gkinopoulos (0000-0003-1070-6245, Loughborough University), William Hirst (0000-0002-8506-6492, New School) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 286-296 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698017701610 |
| OpenAlex | W2725141668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 41 |
Our aim here is to delineate the connection between selective remembering and selective forgetting as it applies to lay historians listening to selective recountings of history. How does what a speaker remembers about a nation’s past shape what is forgotten about the nation’s past for the listener? To address this question, we will discuss psychological research demonstrating the mnemonic consequences of this selectivity with an emphasis on retrieval-induced forgetting within social settings. In particular, we highlight how selectively remembering nationally relevant, historical events may induce forgetting of related historical information for the listener, and this forgetting may not only have important implications for individual and national identities but said identities may influence both what is remembered and forgotten. We end with some concluding thoughts and areas of future research
Active listening · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Forgetting · Mnemonic · Recall · Retrieval-induced forgetting · Communication · History · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychological and Educational Research Studies · Psychology
A Tale of Three Functions
Group Identification and Historical Memory
Rethinking interference theory
Remembering can cause forgetting
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
Social identity and intergroup relations
Shared Reality
The Social Self
Inattentive Listening Undermines Self‐Verification in Personal Storytelling
Hindsight 40 years on
History as the narrative of a people
The lay historian explains intergroup behavior
Looking forward to the past
Social Context Effects on Story Recall in Older and Younger Women
How what we tell becomes what we know
Commentary
Audience-tuning effects on memory
Seven types of forgetting
Forgetting the Unforgettable Through Conversation
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |