TY - JOUR
T1 - Forgetting in Social Chains
T2 - The Impact of Cognition on Information Propagation
AU - Drost-Lopez, Jose
AU - Coman, Alin
N1 - Funding Information:
* Address correspondence to: Alin Coman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Peretsman-Scully Hall, #529, Princeton, NJ 08540. We gratefully acknowledge the support of National Science Grant BCS-1748285 to AC.
Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of National Science Grant BCS-1748285 to AC. We also thank Rae Drach for assistance with data coding, and Nick Rohrbaugh and Elizabeth Levy-Paluck for comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Listening to a speaker selectively practicing previously encoded information leads to better memory for the practiced information, but at the same time results in induced forgetting of related memories. These effects have been found to occur due to the concurrent, and covert, retrieval of information on the part of the listener. Using a modified version of the method of serial reproduction (Bartlett, 1932), this study explored the degree to which rehearsal and retrieval-induced forgetting effects propagated in 64 3-person-chains of connected participants. We manipulated the degree of concurrent retrieval from the part of the listener by activating high and low relational motivations during the listening task. We showed that the degree of propagation of retrieval-induced forgetting was larger when concurrent retrieval was activated (high-relational motivation) than when concurrent retrieval was attenuated (low-relational motivation). This study provides a framework that aims to bridge between micro-level cognitive phenomena and macro-level social dynamics.
AB - Listening to a speaker selectively practicing previously encoded information leads to better memory for the practiced information, but at the same time results in induced forgetting of related memories. These effects have been found to occur due to the concurrent, and covert, retrieval of information on the part of the listener. Using a modified version of the method of serial reproduction (Bartlett, 1932), this study explored the degree to which rehearsal and retrieval-induced forgetting effects propagated in 64 3-person-chains of connected participants. We manipulated the degree of concurrent retrieval from the part of the listener by activating high and low relational motivations during the listening task. We showed that the degree of propagation of retrieval-induced forgetting was larger when concurrent retrieval was activated (high-relational motivation) than when concurrent retrieval was attenuated (low-relational motivation). This study provides a framework that aims to bridge between micro-level cognitive phenomena and macro-level social dynamics.
KW - degree of influence
KW - degree of separation
KW - propagation of information
KW - socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting
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U2 - 10.1163/15685373-12340036
DO - 10.1163/15685373-12340036
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053514312
SN - 1567-7095
VL - 18
SP - 390
EP - 409
JO - Journal of Cognition and Culture
JF - Journal of Cognition and Culture
IS - 3-4
ER -