ABSTRACT
Surprisingly, although remembering frequently occurs in spontaneous conversations (Miller, Potts, Fung, Hoogstra , & Mintz, 1990), conversational remembering has only recently become the focus of intensive psychological investigation. Fivush, Haden, and Reese (1994) studied how the conversational strategies of parents facilitate the development of their children's narrative skills. Middleton (994) explored how conversational devices push any act of remembering in specific directions, leaving some past events unrecalled while increasing the availability of others. We have concentrated on two distinct, but related aspects of conversational remembering: (a) the way in which the social dynamics of a conversation structure remembering within a conversation, and (b) the effect of an act of conversational remembering on subsequent acts of remembering.
