This article reviews and synthesizes 10 free-recall studies on collective memory carried out in Latin America, Europe, Palestine. Results show the high prevalence of topics politics, violence warfare, but around 50% recalled events were appraised as positives, disconfirming a negative bias memory. However, Palestine most entirely or partially negative, reflecting country’s conflictual situation...

We examine the role of history in organization studies by theorizing how collectivememory shapes societal institutions and the logics that govern them. We propose that, rather than transhistorical ideal types, societal logics are historically constituted cultural structures generated through the collectivememory of historical events.We then develop a theoretical model to explain how the represe...

The June 2020 Black Lives Matter protests which took place at the Cenotaph and Winston Churchill memorial in London triggered national debate United Kingdom regarding roles that memorials play urban spaces. Stoked by media sensationalism, public discourse action became increasingly vitriolic weeks following protests. This contribution to Debates Interventions problematizes this divisive underst...

The paper reports on a pilot study of how a virtual city can be enhanced by interlinking elements of the 3D city model with the city’s collective memory represented in various digital formats. A particular street called Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta Indonesia has been modeled and hosted on Google Earth. Through the questionnaires returned by the participating students, we also investigate how c...

I investigate the collective memory performance in a recognition memory task in which each individual in a group independently retrieves memories related to the same study items. For each test item in the recognition memory task, the aggregated memory judgment is based on the average of confidence ratings across individuals. Using a Bayesian Signal Detection Theory (SDT) analysis of the confide...

Memories of war, terrorism, and natural disaster play a critical role in the construction of group identity and the persistence of group conflict. Here, we argue that personal memory and knowledge of the collective past become entwined only when public events have a direct, forceful, and prolonged impact on a population. Support for this position comes from a cross-national study in which parti...