Beliefs, narratives and experiences : social contagion of memories
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beliefs, narratives and experiences : social contagion of memories
Original language description
This paper deals with the socio-cognitive factors of formation and transmission of personal experience narratives about supernatural agents. Using examples of traditional supernatural beliefs known from Slovak rural environment, author tries to explain how narratives and beliefs spread in particular society can be incorporated into someone's autobiographical memories. Human memory is not a passive storage and recall device for static memories, but a dynamic process of repeated construction and reconstruction of memories, which is liable to external influence. So called false memories are a by-product of normal memory reconstruction. The author claims, that this frequently occurring memory phenomenon plays a role in cultural transmission, in this case,in transmission of narrative folklore concerning supernatural beliefs.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů