Mnemonic convergence in a social network: Collective memory and extended influence

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 272-279

  Yamashiro, Jeremy K ^a   Hirst, William ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Conversational remembering; Degrees of influence; Mnemonic convergence; Propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920566450     PISSN: 22113681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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