COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF THE PAST OF THE EUROPEAN NATIONS IN VISUAL MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS – REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL IMAGOLOGY

References: 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2017, www.sgemvienna.org, SGEM2017 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-97-1 / ISSN 2367-5659, March 28-31, Book6, Vol.1, 133-140 pp, DOI:10.5593/SGEMSOCIAL2017/HB61/S9.16

ABSTRACT
The paper discusses the pictorial data received in the survey in 1994 and 2012 as the result of the task consisting in drawing a picture of a representative of a given nation. Treated as evidence of mental representations, the pictures are examined on account of the occurrence of the traces of the past and studied as manifestations of dynamic collective memory of the group.

Keywords: collective memory, mental visual representations, stereotypes of nations, experimental imagology, associative survey