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SUMMARY:Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to
  emergent phenomena - Dr Alin Coman (Princeton)
DTSTART:20211201T160000Z
DTEND:20211201T173000Z
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CONTACT:David Young
DESCRIPTION:The development of shared memories is a critical characteristi
 c of human communities. From small groups such as families to large ones s
 uch as nations\, communities form collective memories of past events that 
 often impact their identities and behaviors. This emergent outcome (i.e.\,
  shared memories) is thought to occur owing to a dynamic system of informa
 tion sharing and memory updating\, which fundamentally depends on communic
 ation. In this talk\, I will present a research program to study how commu
 nities dynamically form these collective memories. Using experiments that 
 involve conversational interactions in social networks\, I will show how l
 arge-scale social phenomena (i.e.\, collective memory) can emerge out of m
 icrolevel local dynamics (i.e.\, mnemonic reinforcement and suppression ef
 fects). The social-interactionist research program proposed herein offers 
 a framework for measuring and forging collective-level outcomes in communi
 ties of individuals.\n\nClick-through for the Zoom link: https://www.psych
 ol.cam.ac.uk/study/current-postgraduates/spss-joining-details
LOCATION:via zoom 
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