TY - JOUR
T1 - How We Remember Conversation
T2 - Implications in Legal Settings
AU - Brown-Schmidt, Sarah
AU - Benjamin, Aaron S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Memory for the content of our conversations reflects two partially conflicting demands. First, to be an effective participant in a conversation, we use our memory to follow its trajectory, to keep track of unresolved details, and to model the intentions and knowledge states of our partners. Second, to effectively remember a conversation, we need to recall the gist of what was said, by whom, and in what context. These two sets of demands are often different in their content and character. In this article, we review what is known about distant memory for conversations, focusing on issues that have particular relevance for legal contexts. We highlight evidence likely to be of importance in legal contexts, including estimates of how much information can be recalled, the quantity and types of errors that are likely to be made, and the situational factors that shape memory for conversation. The biases we see in distant memory for a conversation reflect in part the interplay of the conflicting demands that conversation places upon us.
AB - Memory for the content of our conversations reflects two partially conflicting demands. First, to be an effective participant in a conversation, we use our memory to follow its trajectory, to keep track of unresolved details, and to model the intentions and knowledge states of our partners. Second, to effectively remember a conversation, we need to recall the gist of what was said, by whom, and in what context. These two sets of demands are often different in their content and character. In this article, we review what is known about distant memory for conversations, focusing on issues that have particular relevance for legal contexts. We highlight evidence likely to be of importance in legal contexts, including estimates of how much information can be recalled, the quantity and types of errors that are likely to be made, and the situational factors that shape memory for conversation. The biases we see in distant memory for a conversation reflect in part the interplay of the conflicting demands that conversation places upon us.
KW - context
KW - conversation
KW - errors
KW - law
KW - memory
KW - recall
KW - recognition
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U2 - 10.1177/2372732218786975
DO - 10.1177/2372732218786975
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85056254339
SN - 2372-7322
VL - 5
SP - 187
EP - 194
JO - Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 2
ER -