| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
On the creation and maintenance of collective memories : history as social psychology / James W. Pennebaker and Becky L. Banasik -- The inventory of experience : memory and identity / Martin A. Conway -- The generational basis of historical knowledge / Howard Schuman, Robert F. Belli, and Katherine Bischoping -- Art and remembering traumatic collective events : the case of the Spanish Civil War / Juanjo Igartua and Dario Paez -- Commemorating / Nico H. Frijda -- How individual emotional episodes feed collective memory / Bernard Rimé and Véronique Christophe -- Social processes and collective memory : a cross-cultural approach to remembering political events / Dario Paez, Nekane Basabe, and Jose Luis Gonzalez -- Group differences in memory for a political event / George D. Gaskell and Daniel B. Wright -- When individual memories are socially shaped : flashbulb memories of sociopolitical events / Catrin Finkenauer, Lydia Gisle, and Olivier Luminet -- Nostalgia, immigration, and collective memory / Guglielmo Bellelli and Mirella A.C. Amutulli -- Remembering : passing back through the heart / Elizabeth Lira -- The construction of remembering and forgetfulness : memories and histories of the Spanish Civil War / Lupicinio Íñiguez, Jose Valencia, and Félix Vázquez -- Social sharing, emotional climate, and the transgenerational transmission of memories : the Portuguese colonial war / Jose Marques, Dario Paez, and Alexandra F. Serra -- Distortions of collective memory : how groups flatter and deceive themselves / Roy F. Baumeister and Stephen Hastings |
| Summary |
Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology. The core idea is that collective attitudes and behaviors are created and shared through common experiences and communication among a cohort of people. For example, people born between 1940 and 1960 are often defined via the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War. Their parents typically experienced lesser impact from these events. Papers about collective memory have appeared in the literature under different guises for the last hundred yea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Autobiographical memory.
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Collective memory -- Political aspects
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Social psychology.
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Psychology, Social
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social psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Autobiographical memory
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Social psychology
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Collectief geheugen.
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Sociale psychologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pennebaker, James W
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Páez, Darío
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Rimé, Bernard
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| ISBN |
9781134800384 |
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113480038X |
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1299698891 |
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9781299698895 |
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9780203774427 |
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0203774426 |
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