Remembering in conversations: The social sharing and reshaping of memories

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-79

  Hirst, William ^a   Echterhoff, Gerald ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative facilitation inhibition; Communication; Retrieval effects; Retrieval induced forgetting; Shared reality; Social contagion; Social network

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82955240715     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100340     Document Type: Review

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