“I can Almost Remember it Now”: Between Personal and Collective Memories of Massive Social Trauma

Chaitin, Julia; Steinberg, Shoshana

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“…While episodic memory is typically associated with events that are personally experienced by the rememberer, events that are not personally experienced may also register in episodic memory. Through a series of qualitative interviews, Chaitin and Steinberg (2014, p. 30) found that individuals could come to remember autobiographical memories of elder family members regarding events that occurred before they were born. The authors surmise that strongly emotional or traumatic events may cause individuals to recollect and reflect on “personal experiences, in places they had never been, at a time when they were not alive” as if they had lived through the events.…”

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confidence: 99%

A memory theory perspective of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity

Lee

2017

EJM

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Purpose This study contends that consumer ethnocentrism and animosity rest on semantic and episodic memory, respectively. It further examines how the influence of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity on consumer boycott behaviour may vary over time and use the memory theory to explain these temporal differences. Design/methodology/approach Part 1 involved an experiment to demonstrate the relationship between consumer ethnocentrism/animosity and semantic/episodic memory. To determine the temporal characteristics of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity, Part 2 involved two quantitative surveys (one each in China and Japan), followed by another two surveys six months later. Findings Part 1 showed that consumer ethnocentrism and animosity were underpinned by semantic and episodic memory, respectively. Consistent with memory theory, Part 2 found that consumer ethnocentrism was temporally more stable than animosity. Consumer animosity influenced boycott behaviour during but not after the dispute, whereas consumer ethnocentrism influenced boycott behaviour during as well as the dispute. Finally, consumer ethnocentrism was antecedent to consumer animosity, siding with the relationship between semantic and episodic memory. Research limitations/implications Limited to two countries, both with collectivistic culture. A longitudinal approach over multiple phases would further enhance the robustness of the findings. Practical implications Understanding the psychological underpinning of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity would allow firms to develop effective marketing strategies to appeal to consumers’ ethnocentric and animosity dispositions. Originality/value The first study to examine the psychological underpinnings of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity by drawing on the memory theory.

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Section: Conceptual Developmentmentioning

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A memory theory perspective of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity

Lee

2017

EJM

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“…The Nakba is a fundamental component of collective Palestinian identity and, as a rule, scholarly literature considers its victims – as individuals and as a collective – as suffering from trauma (see, for example, Bresheeth, ; Gertz & Khleifi, ; Hever, ; Nassar, ; Shenhav, ). One may even define the Nakba as the chosen trauma of the Palestinian people (Chaitin & Steinberg, ). Nevertheless, the Nakba is also significant for the identity and history of its engineers, its executors and its beneficiaries.…”

Section: The Nakba As An Israeli Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

“The Road to the Village”: Israeli Social Unconscious and the Palestinian Nakba

Even-tzur

2016

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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This paper tackles the paradox inherent in Israeli attempts to silence the Palestinian Nakba: despite massive effacement efforts, the traces of the Nakba remain all‐pervasive in Israeli culture and collective memory. Several silencing practices are described and discussed from a Freudian perspective, as instances of collective repression of anxiety provoking material. Furthermore, it is suggested that as far as the Nakba is concerned, this repression might be the result of collective perpetrator trauma. Finally, the paper offers several intriguing examples of “social traumatic symptoms”, which are understood as signs of the return of the repressed. According to LaCapra, collective post‐traumatic symptoms serve as obstacles to the formation of just and responsible societies. Thus, the paper concludes with a discussion of the socially therapeutic value of the current analysis and its potential contribution to long term processes of collective working through and decolonization. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…By far, the most gripping and poignant examples of these kinds of recollections come from the voices of adult children of Holo-caust survivors as they reflect on their "memories" of their loved ones' horrific experiences as survivors-including fear, anguish, near starvation, and sometimes encampment (Chaitin & Steinberg, 2014;Goldberg, 2014). The historian Marianne Hirsch (2008Hirsch ( , 2014 proposes that listening to these tragic narratives of survivors and other witnesses can be so profoundly affecting, and the stories internalized so deeply, that they take on the feel of actual memories.…”

Section: Post and Prosthetic Impossible Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting the Records Straight: Impossible Memories and the Persistence of Their Phenomenological Qualities

Foley

2015

Review of General Psychology

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This article offers a new perspective on the study of "recollections" that feel like memories despite the fact that people come to believe they are based on events that could not possibly have happened. Indeed this feeling of remembering can persist long after people change their beliefs. This new perspective emerges from the integration of the work of memory scientists with that of literary writers and historians. Shedding light on assumptions about the strength of these persistence effects, the perspective serves as an effective heuristic for guiding the study of precipitating factors that may lead people to question their recollections in the first place. This integrative perspective also invites a broader consideration of the circumstances giving rise to changes in beliefs as well as resistance to such changes. In the process, this new perspective extends and sharpens theoretical discussions about memory reconstruction processes, highlighting the role of scene making and social interactions.

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“I can Almost Remember it Now”: Between Personal and Collective Memories of Massive Social Trauma

Cited by 11 publications

References 56 publications

A memory theory perspective of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity

A memory theory perspective of consumer ethnocentrism and animosity

“The Road to the Village”: Israeli Social Unconscious and the Palestinian Nakba

Setting the Records Straight: Impossible Memories and the Persistence of Their Phenomenological Qualities

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