Achieving commonality in interpersonal communication: Shared reality and memory processes
Gerald Echterhoff · Asian Journal Of Social Psychology · 2014
ceptually integrates studies on the processes underlying the construction of socially and culturally shared knowledge. The result is an assembly of research to form a bigger picture. The analyses are informed by insights into conver-sational, cognitive, behavioural, and motivational mecha-nisms, and this constellation can be informative and inspiring not only to social psychologists, but to scholars from different fields, including cognition, psycholinguistics, sociology, and anthropology. As a social psychologist, I am particularly impressed by the keen analysis of the interplay between the relational, informational and epistemic func-tions of shared knowledge (illustrated with the connectivity-informativeness dilemma), and how this interplay is fleshed out at the interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup level. Over the course of the article, the reader learns about various