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An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Collaborative Remembering?
Author(s) -
Amici Federica
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12398
Subject(s) - conformity , social learning , cognitive science , psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , pedagogy
Abstract Hope and Gabbert (2008) and Jay and colleagues (in press) show us that collaborative remembering, in certain contexts, may result in incomplete and less accurate memories. Here, I will discuss the evolutionary origins of this behavior, linking it to phenomena such as social contagion, conformity, and social learning, which are highly adaptive and widespread across non‐human taxa.