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  1. Creating Shared Memories in Conversation: Toward a Psychology of Collective Memory.William Hirst & Gerald Echterhoff - 2008 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 75 (1):183-216.
    Collective memories are often formed through the conversations community members have with each other. The effectiveness of these conversations to transmit a memory across a community and to produce a shared and stable mnemonic representation is constrained by psychological factors. This essay examines the effects of speakers' retellings of past events on listeners' memories and on their own memories. The first topic involves research investigating social contagion, resistance to influence, and induced forgetting. The second focuses on the saying-is-believing effect and (...)
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