Do public speeches induce “collective” forgetting? The Belgian King’s 2012 summer speech as a case study

Although social scientists have examined how political speeches may help forge and/or shape collective memories, they have done so with little to no input from psychologists. We address this deficit, demonstrating how a modified version of a well-established and empirically derived psychological phenomenon—socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting—helps explain the mnemonic consequences associated with political speeches, in this case, the Belgian King’s 2012 summer speech. To this end, we analyzed the responses of 43 French speakers and 49 Dutch speakers. Of these individuals, 35 attended... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Stone, Charles B.
Luminet, Olivier
Jay, Alexander A.C.V.
Klein, Olivier
Licata, Laurent
Hirst, William
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Schlagwörter: Psychologie sociale / Psychologie expérimentale / Psychologie cognitive / Sociologie / Belgium / collective memory / public speeches / social identity / socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28538853
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/335286