{"title":"National memory","authors":"Jeremy K. Yamashiro, Zizhan Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102078","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ernest Renan defined a nation as a community sharing a rich legacy of memories, the desire to live together, and the desire to build on their mutual heritage. We review psychological research on how representations of the national past are molded to help memory fulfill these identitarian functions. Specifically, we examine nationalistic overclaiming of historical influence, the ideologically normative function of charters in the form of origin stories, schematic frameworks for meaning making in the form of national narrative templates and implicit temporal trajectories, transformations of national memory across generations in response to contemporary priorities, identity positioning in relation to shameful histories or memories of victimhood, and the relation between national memory and imagination for the national future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48279,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Psychology","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 102078"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current Opinion in Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X25000910","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Ernest Renan defined a nation as a community sharing a rich legacy of memories, the desire to live together, and the desire to build on their mutual heritage. We review psychological research on how representations of the national past are molded to help memory fulfill these identitarian functions. Specifically, we examine nationalistic overclaiming of historical influence, the ideologically normative function of charters in the form of origin stories, schematic frameworks for meaning making in the form of national narrative templates and implicit temporal trajectories, transformations of national memory across generations in response to contemporary priorities, identity positioning in relation to shameful histories or memories of victimhood, and the relation between national memory and imagination for the national future.
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Current Opinion in Psychology is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals and is a companion to the primary research, open access journal, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach to ensure they are a widely-read resource that is integral to scientists' workflows.
Current Opinion in Psychology is divided into themed sections, some of which may be reviewed on an annual basis if appropriate. The amount of space devoted to each section is related to its importance. The topics covered will include:
* Biological psychology
* Clinical psychology
* Cognitive psychology
* Community psychology
* Comparative psychology
* Developmental psychology
* Educational psychology
* Environmental psychology
* Evolutionary psychology
* Health psychology
* Neuropsychology
* Personality psychology
* Social psychology