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Social incoherence and the narrative construction of memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Judith Pintar  and
Steven Jay Lynn
Judith Pintar*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61820
Steven Jay Lynn*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY13902
*
jpintar@uiuc.edu
slynn@binghamton.edu
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Abstract:

By shifting the focus of analysis from forgetting and remembering to interpreting and making-meaning, Erdelyi allows theoretical consideration of repression to move beyond the heuristic assumption that personal memory is necessarily private memory. In this commentary, repression is considered to be a collective process in which memories are shaped by the need for coherence between individual and social narratives.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 529
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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