Collective mental time travel: Creating a shared future through our shared past

Memory Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 284-294

  Merck, Clinton ^a   Topcu, Meymune N ^a   Hirst, William ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; collective memory; identity; mental time travel; socially shared retrieval induced forgetting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977534265     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698016645236     Document Type: Article

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