The study of collective memory needs to take into consideration the cultural context in which
the remembering takes place. In this article, I analyse how functional variations of collective …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

In this volume, Qi Wang traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of
the autobiographical self-the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the …

The concept of social representations of history or collective remembering has enriched
process-oriented psychology with content, or culturally constructed common ground that …

Recall of canonical categories has been widely used to measure flashbulb memory
performance. However, these canonical categories are based on a single study and have …

This chapter discusses similarities and differences of Flashbulb memories (FBMs) and
collective memories (CMs). It examines the role of social sharing, mass media rehearsal and …

Most collective memory research to date has focused on the temporal distribution of and
generational differences in public event representations while not directly addressing the …

We examined and compared the initiating conditions of flashbulb memory (FBM) confidence
and event memory accuracy across two different, yet similar public, political events occurring …

Flashbulb memory (FBM) refers to the vivid memory for the context of learning about a public
news event. Past research has identified a number of factors that influence the formation of …

The flashbulb accounts of 38 participants concerning the September 11th 2001 terrorist
attack reported at both 28 hours and 6 months following the event were examined for …