Recently, researchers have endeavored to extend cultural perspectives of collective remembering by examining communicative or living historical memory (collective memories that emerge from informal communication between ordinary people). The current study examined the content and subjective evaluation of living historical memory from open-ended nominations of historical events provided by samples from 39 societies. Results showed that Western societies were dominated by living memories of terrorism, reflecting a distinctly negative climate. By contrast, many developing societies displayed a more positive climate in living memory that was rooted in events related to their nation’s foundation. The current study opens up avenues for conceptualizing the role of collective remembering in shaping emotional climates that influence (or may be part of) national political culture.

最近，研究人员通过检查交流或生活的历史记忆（从普通人之间的非正式交流中产生的集体记忆），努力扩展集体记忆的文化视野。本研究考察了内容和主观评价来自39个社会的样本提供的对历史事件的不限成员名额提名中留下的历史记忆。结果表明，西方社会以对恐怖主义的活泼记忆为主导，反映出明显的消极气候。相比之下，许多发展中的社会在生活记忆中表现出更为积极的气氛，这种气氛植根于与他们国家成立有关的事件。当前的研究为概念化集体记忆在塑造影响国家政治文化（或可能是国家政治文化）的情感气候中的作用开辟了途径。