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To review the psychological mechanisms of shared reality, tracing how alignment in interpersonal communication scales into generalized common worldviews.

April 1, 2021Current Directions in Psychological Science

Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds

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To review the psychological mechanisms of shared reality, tracing how alignment in interpersonal communication scales into generalized common worldviews.
Synthesized literature on shared-reality creation and the 'sharing-is-believing' communication paradigm.
Analyzed behavioral evidence examining how audience-tuning shapes communicator memory, interpersonal closeness, and epistemic certainty.
Audience-driven message tuning systematically alters a communicator's own recall and cognitive evaluation, establishing the sharing-is-believing effect.
Generalized shared reality about external events reinforces both relational bonding and perceived epistemic validity.
Shared relevance provides a potential theoretical framework for connecting individuals across disparate or polarized subjective realities.

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Conceptual review reveals how shared reality fosters interpersonal closeness and epistemic certainty in human communication, suggesting shared relevance can bridge disparate worldviews.

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Higgins et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8e78713e0539d74bedf67 https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721421992027

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Conceptual review reveals how shared reality fosters interpersonal closeness and epistemic certainty in human communication, suggesting shared relevance can bridge disparate worldviews.

Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds

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Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds

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