Ostalgie: Manifestations of the East-West Divide in Semantic Memory

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Psychology, Geography, and Political Attitudes

Brief Overview

We argue that macro-level causal factors influence political attitudes and behaviors by engendering differences in the organization of memory. To test this mechanism, we focus on Germany and model memory representations using NLP techniques.

Authors

• Anil Menon, University of Michigan

• Pedro Rodríguez, Vanderbilt University