ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to draw the reader’s attention to some issues that may be relevant to the development of the still neglected social side of prospective memory research, namely, the role of social interaction and that of the social value of the to-be-performed action in activating and inhibiting prospective remembering. Both these topics are prototypical issues in the eld of social cognition, which attempts to understand and explain how individuals’ behavior is inuenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others (Allport, 1985). In this view, the study of social interaction and of the social value of goals as potential determinants of prospective memory performance can be conceptualized as the study of remembering to do actions, respectively, with others and for others (M. Kliegel, personal communication, November 23, 2005).
