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

Stone, Charles B.; Luminet, Olivier; Jay, Alexander C. V.; Klein, Olivier; Licata, Laurent; Hirst, William

doi:10.1177/1750698019900949

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“…That is, listeners can be motivated to concurrently retrieve for relational reasons. Such relational motives can account for the finding that SSRIF occurs when speaker and listener are members of the same social group, but not when they belong to different social groups (Coman & Hirst, 2015; see also Barber & Mather, 2012;Coman, Stone, Castano, & Hirst, 2014;Stone et al, 2019). Taken together, the extant evidence would suggest that when people listen to a Central Speaker, the speaker should be able to reshape the public's memory through shared practice effects and socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting.…”

Section: Socially Shared Retrieval-induced Forgettingmentioning

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Convergence on collective memories: Central speakers and distributed remembering.

Yamashiro¹,

Hirst²

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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A primary interest in the psychological study of collective memory concerns the sociocognitive processes by which Central Speakers-politicians, journalists, and other public voices-may reshape the memory of groups of listeners. In 2 experiments, we examine how (a) Central Speakers may induce shared practice effects and socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting (SSRIF) for related but unmentioned items in a group of listeners, (b) how communicational remembering along a serial transmission chain can moderate this initial mnemonic influence, and (c) how listeners' relational motives toward the Central Speaker, operationalized as perceived social group membership, impact both (a) and (b). Experiment 1 shows that a Central Speaker may induce both SSRIF and shared practice effects in a group of listeners, and that, relative to noncommunicating nominal groups, communicational remembering in a looped serial transmission chain amplifies the relative inaccessibility of related but unmentioned items. In Experiment 2, we show that the Central Speaker's perceived group membership moderates the effects of subsequent communicational remembering. When ingroup, communicational remembering amplifies the Central Speaker's SSRIF, when outgroup, subsequent communicational remembering attenuates it.

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Section: Socially Shared Retrieval-induced Forgettingmentioning

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Convergence on collective memories: Central speakers and distributed remembering.

Yamashiro¹,

Hirst²

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…Scholars have previously established an important link between collective memory and well‐being (Walker & Pettigrew, 1984; Zagefka & Brown, 2005). Other research has established that the recollection of collective memories can be influenced by socio‐psychological factors and social events (Sahdra & Ross, 2007; Stone et al., 2020). Yet, how and why collective memory changes in an individual's lifespan are not well understood.…”

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“…For example, Stone et al. (2020) observed that French‐speaking Belgians recalled less information about the political issues facing Belgium after attending to one of the Belgian King’s biannual speeches. Furthermore, Sahdra and Ross (2007, Study 2) experimentally induced high and low levels of identification with Canada and asked Canadians to freely recollect memories about their country.…”

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The malleability of collective memories: One year after the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan

Caron-Diotte

Sablonnière

Sadykova

2021

British J Social Psychol

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How people view their social groups’ history has important implications at both the collective and the individual levels. It has been established that collective memories, the representations of one’s groups’ history, differ between generations and individuals. Yet, it remains unclear how collective memories change in reaction to dramatic social change. Using temporal collective relative deprivation (TCRD), which reflects how individuals perceive their group’s situation in history, we hypothesize that TCRD trajectories change over time and that highly identified individuals will be less likely to change their trajectory. Kyrgyz nationals (N = 166) responded immediately after the Tulip Revolution and one year later to TCRD measurements. Dual group‐based trajectory analysis indicates that a third of the sample modified their memories about their group’s situation one year after a dramatic social change and that low identification with the group predicted this change. These results support the idea that collective memory is revised at the individual level after dramatic social change.

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“…For example, researchers have applied a well-known psychological method used to evaluate how particular silences in individual recall can promote forgetting (the method is called retrieval-induced forgetting) in socially shared contexts (Coman et al 2009). Stone et al (2020) even tested this theory in a real-life situation by examining how the omission of particular topics from the speeches of public figures (in this case, the Belgian king) can actively promote collective forgetting.…”

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Collective memory: An hourglass between the collective and the individual

Cordonnier¹,

Rosoux

Gijs³

et al. 2022

Mem. Mind & Media

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Collective memories are memories shared by a group that influence their social identity. The goal of this paper is to focus on two major limitations in current studies on collective memory and show how the hourglass metaphor can overcome those limitations. The first limitation concerns the partial nature of studies devoted to the analysis of collective memory. Studies tend to focus either on the choice of the past (how memory agents mobilise the past) or the weight of the past (how the past affects the individual or the group). The second limitation relates to the temporal dimension of research conducted so far. Most studies only assess memory over a single generation, yet it can have long-term effects. In this paper, we suggest considering memory work as an hourglass, with the collective and the individual at opposite ends and the sand of memories passing from one to the other, filtered through family values and representations. The hourglass metaphor thus provides a helpful tool to explain the formation of collective memories over time and the interactions between the macro, meso, and micro levels. We approach the study of collective memory from an interdisciplinary perspective, mainly involving psychology, political science, and history. We conclude by suggesting three challenges that future studies of memory will need to address: (1) the need to combine multiple approaches; (2) the need to consider the role of generations; and (3) the need to bridge discussion across disciplines.

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

Cited by 18 publications

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Convergence on collective memories: Central speakers and distributed remembering.

Convergence on collective memories: Central speakers and distributed remembering.

The malleability of collective memories: One year after the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan

Collective memory: An hourglass between the collective and the individual

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