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The normative and the personal life: individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates.
(Memory, 2009-01)
Life scripts are culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life
events in a prototypical life course. American and Danish undergraduates produced
life story events and life scripts by listing the seven ...
Internal languages of retrieval: the bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past.
(Mem Cognit, 2000-06)
In contrast to most research on bilingual memory that focuses on how words in either
lexicon are mapped onto memory for objects and concepts, we focus on memory for events
in the personal past. Using a word-cue technique ...
Confidence, not consistency, characterizes flashbulb memories.
(Psychol Sci, 2003-09)
On September 12, 2001, 54 Duke students recorded their memory of first hearing about
the terrorist attacks of September 11 and of a recent everyday event. They were tested
again either 1, 6, or 32 weeks later. Consistency ...
Life-narrative and word-cued autobiographical memories in centenarians: comparisons with 80-year-old control, depressed, and dementia groups.
(Memory, 2003-01)
Centenarians provided autobiographical memories to either a request for a life narrative
or a request to produce autobiographical memories to cue words. Both methods produced
distributions with childhood-amnesia, ...
Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory.
(Mem Cognit, 2004-04)
Three classes of evidence demonstrate the existence of life scripts, or culturally
shared representations of the timing of major transitional life events. First, a reanalysis
of earlier studies on age norms shows an increase ...
A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis.
(Psychol Rev, 2008-10)
In the mnemonic model of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the current memory
of a negative event, not the event itself, determines symptoms. The model is an alternative
to the current event-based etiology of PTSD represented ...
Memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and nontraumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.
(J Exp Psychol Gen, 2008-11)
One hundred fifteen undergraduates rated 15 word-cued memories and their 3 most negatively
stressful, 3 most positive, and 7 most important events and completed tests of personality
and depression. Eighty-nine also recorded ...
The frequency of voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories across the life span.
(Mem Cognit, 2009-07)
In the present study, ratings of the memory of an important event from the previous
week on the frequency of voluntary and involuntary retrieval, belief in its accuracy,
visual imagery, auditory imagery, setting, emotional ...
Flashbulb memories and posttraumatic stress reactions across the life span: age-related effects of the German occupation of Denmark during World War II.
(Psychol Aging, 2006-03)
A representative sample of older Danes were interviewed about experiences from the
German occupation of Denmark in World War II. The number of participants with flashbulb
memories for the German invasion (1940) and capitulation ...