How social is social memory? Isolating the influences of social and nonsocial cues on recall.
Abstract
= 270), we replicated both the standard collaborative inhibition and part-list cuing impairments. Collaborative groups exhibited more reciprocal influence on one another's recall than part-list cuing participants, producing responses from the same taxonomic category as the cues more often than part-list cuing participants, and exhibiting greater collective memory. These findings provide evidence for the operation of the cross-cuing mechanism in social remembering relative to nonsocial remembering. We discuss these theoretical contributions and implications for education, information transmission, beliefs, and collective narratives. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Memory Processes and Influences
Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
Identity
Memory
and Therapy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1826–1843
- Publication date
- 8 January 2026
- Language
- EN