Memory transmission in small groups and large networks: An empirical study

• Published in: Psychonomic bulletin & review Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 581 - 588
• Main Authors: Gates, Vael, Suchow, Jordan W., Griffiths, Thomas L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Behavioral Science and Psychology; Brief Report; Cognitive Psychology; Collaboration; Cooperative Behavior; Crowdsourcing; Experiments; Human subjects; Humans; Hypotheses; Inhibition, Psychological; Laboratories; Memory; Mental Recall - physiology; Psychologists; Psychology; Crowdsourcing; Agent-based modeling; Collaborative inhibition; Collaborative memory

When people try to remember information in a group, they often recall less than if they were recalling alone. This finding is called collaborative inhibition , and has been studied primarily in small groups because of the difficulty of bringing large groups into the laboratory. To study the dynamics...