Collective Memory from a Psychological Perspective |
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Authors: | Alin Coman Adam D Brown Jonathan Koppel William Hirst |
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Institution: | (1) The New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011, USA;(2) Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA |
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Abstract: | The study of collective memory has burgeoned in the last 20 years, so much so that one can even detect a growing resistance
to what some view as the imperialistic march of memory studies across the social sciences (e.g., Berliner 2005; Fabian 1999). Yet despite its clear advance, one area that has remained on the sidelines is psychology. On the one hand, this disinterest
is surprising, since memory is of central concern to psychologists. On the other hand, the relative absence of the study of
collective memory within the discipline of psychology seems to suit both psychology and other disciplines of the social sciences,
for reasons that will be made clear. This paper explores how psychology might step from the sidelines and contribute meaningfully
to discussions of collective memory. It reviews aspects of the small literature on the psychology of collective memory and
connects this work to the larger scholarly community’s interest in collective memory.
The first three authors contributed equally to this paper. The order in which they are listed reflects the throw of a die. |
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Keywords: | Social contagion Memory restructuring Collective memory Collective forgetting |
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