Group Differences in Memory for a Political Event
GEORGE D. GASKELL, Daniel Benjamin Wright · Psychology Press eBooks · 2013
For many years I have remembered how I heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, .. . I remember it well-listening to a baseball game on the radio. The game was interrupted by an announcement of the attack, and I rushed upstairs to tell my mother. This memory has been so clear for so long that I never confronted its inherent absurdity [italics added] until last year: no one broadcasts baseball games in December! (Neisser, 1982, p. 45) Constructing a Personal and Social Identity WHO REMEMBERS THATCHER&s;S RESIGNATION?