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William Hirst says that a #narrative that leaves out information “induces forgetting of the unmentioned material.”

#Talking about other parts of the story actively leads people to forget what is not discussed. “We seem to have a brain that is designed to build a collective memory around collective remembering and collective forgetting,” he explains. “Why? It’s adaptive. We’re social creatures oriented toward our in-group and away from out-groups. Memory is designed to reinforce our in-group membership.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-pandemic-amnesia/ @psychology @socialpsych @histodons

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