This article discusses the place of psychology within the now voluminous social scientific
literature on collective memory. Many social scientists locate collective memories in the …

We describe research on the creation of shared reality in communication, emphasizing the
epistemic processes that allow communicators to achieve confident judgements and …

Many everyday conversations, whether between close partners or strangers interacting for
the first time, are about the world external to their relationship, such as music, food, or …

Humans have a fundamental need to experience a shared reality with others. We present a
new conceptualization of shared reality based on four conditions. We posit (a) that shared …

What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The
classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are …

After tuning their message to suit their audience's attitude, communicators' own memories for
the original information (eg, a target person's behaviors) often reflect the biased view …

Shared reality is ubiquitous. We are incessantly confronted with situations that evoke and
demand judgments, beliefs, and emotional responses about a vast variety of objects, topics …

We propose that four fundamental developments of the human animal together produce
distinct human motives:(a) social consciousness or awareness that the outcomes or …

The World Wide Web has inarguably become an integral part of the daily lives of the majority
of the world's population. Many people spend more time online than with any given person …

Communicators typically tune messages to their audience's attitude. Such audience tuning
biases communicators' memory for the topic toward the audience's attitude to the extent that …