Abstract
Are individuals more likely to serve as a vehicle for social contagion because they are perceived as experts or because they talk a lot? This study parses the contribution of expertise and narratorship by asking groups of three or four individuals to study variants of a curriculum vitaeCV) and then to recall the CV individually, as a group, and once again individually, with a recognition test following the final recall. The group was falsely led to believe that one member had expertise. Narratorship was also determined. Expertise and Narratorship contributed independently to critical false recollections, with Narratorship contributing more than Expertise. The way a conversation unfolds and the emergence of a narrator can reshape memories.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 119-129 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Social Psychology |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Psychology
Keywords
- Collective memory
- Expertise
- Memory
- Narrator
- Social contagion