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Who wants to remember COVID-19? Social identification and collective remembering-imagining system predict support for pandemic commemorations
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Like most natural disasters, pandemics are rarely memorialised by societies and poorly remembered by individuals. Using an online survey, we examined two samples (total N = 350) of US young adults' support for commemorating COVID-19. Participants completed measures of identification with all humanity (IWAH), listed significant world events that happened since 1918 and events they anticipate happening by 2128, and indicated their support for investing public funds to commemorate COVID-19. IWAH was a significant predictor of support for commemorating COVID-19. Further, remembering natural disasters predicted anticipating future ones, which in turn predicted support for commemoration. However, the two predictors, IWAH and collective remembering-imagining system, were independent of each other. Findings confirm that people's anticipations for the future are informed by their knowledge of the past and suggest that efforts to prepare for future disasters could benefit from focusing on history education and public commemorations.
Keywords:
Collective remembering-imagining system
commemoration
COVID-19 pandemic
environmental change
global human identification
natural disasters
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