A social host in the machine? The case of group attention

作者：Shteynberg Garriy^*

来源：Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2014, 3(4): 307-311.

DOI：10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.05.005

• Group attention
• Shared experience
• Shared attention
• Ideomotor imitation
• Common ground
• Collective action
• Communication

I argue that akin to mind-body dualism, social-mental dualism is open to critique. That is, mental processes can be inherently social, with sociality 'baked into' the architecture of the cognitive mechanism. As a case in point, I introduce the reader to the cognitive mechanism of group attention. In particular, I focus on the differences between group attention and ideomotor imitation in terms of their (a) compliance to the social-mental dichotomy, and (b) contributions to building common knowledge-a prerequisite for human communication and collective action. Finally, I suggest possible implications of group attention scholarship for other social memory phenomena such as social contagion, socially shared memory-induced forgetting, and the saying-is-believing effect.

• 出版日期2014-12