Implications of a Psychological Approach to Collective Remembering: Social Representations as Cultural Ground for Interpreting Survey and Experimental Results

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dc.citation.volume15
dc.contributor.authorLiu JH
dc.contributor.authorKhan SS
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-16T21:23:36Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T01:37:51Z
dc.date.available2023-11-16T21:23:36Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T01:37:51Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-01
dc.description.abstractPsychology has become connected to the “memory boom” in research, that highlights the concept of social representations, defined as a shared system of knowledge and belief that facilitates communication about social objects where culture is conceptualized as a meta-system of social representations mediated by language, symbols, and their institutional carriers. Six articles on collective remembering, including survey results, text analysis, and experiments, are summarized in this introduction. All rely on content-rich meanings, embedded in sociocultural contexts that influence the results of the surveys and experiments. In the cases of Germany and China, the “historical charter” of the states in the late 19th century was ruptured, resulting in substantially different expressions of nationalism and national identity (in Germany) and filial piety and nationalism (in China) today. Surveys on the organization of living historical memory in Hungary and Finland found that the European Union formed an enduring social context for the formation of memory groups regarding recent history. Finally, in experiments, historical reminders are likely to be anchored in existing networks of meaning, and prime people about what they already believe, rather than exert independent causal effects. This anchoring of historical memory in communicating societies explains why the experimental results in this area are so inconsistent.
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dc.identifier.citationLiu JH, Khan SS. (2021). Implications of a Psychological Approach to Collective Remembering: Social Representations as Cultural Ground for Interpreting Survey and Experimental Results. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. 15.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/18344909211007938
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1834-4909
dc.identifier.numberARTN 18344909211007938
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69132
dc.publisherSAGE Publications on behalf of Beijing Normal University
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcollective memory
dc.subjectsocial representations of history
dc.subjectnationalism
dc.subjecthistorical charters
dc.subjectEuropean Union
dc.titleImplications of a Psychological Approach to Collective Remembering: Social Representations as Cultural Ground for Interpreting Survey and Experimental Results
dc.typeJournal article
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