What happens when we compare the lifespan distributions of life script events and autobiographical memories of life story events? A cross-cultural study

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Research › peer-review

Standard

What happens when we compare the lifespan distributions of life script events and autobiographical memories of life story events? A cross-cultural study. / Zaragoza Scherman, Alejandra ; Salgado, Sinué; Shao, Zhifang et al.
2014. Poster session presented at Comparative Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory, Aarhus, Denmark.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Research › peer-review

Bibtex

@conference{b5aeb0f914e741cc86116ae8326c3f39,

title = "What happens when we compare the lifespan distributions of life script events and autobiographical memories of life story events? A cross-cultural study",

abstract = "Cultural Life Script Theory (Berntsen and Rubin, 2004), provides a cultural explanation of the reminiscence bump: adults older than 40 years remember a significantly greater amount of life events happening between 15 - 30 years of age (Rubin, Rahal, & Poon, 1998), compared to other lifetime periods. Most of these memories are rated as emotionally positive (Rubin & Berntsen, 2003). The cultural life script represents culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life events in an typical, idealised life course. By comparing the lifespan distribution of the life scripts events and memories of life story events, we can determine the degree to which the cultural life script serves as a recall template for autobiographical memories, especially of positive life events from adolescence and early adulthood, also known as the reminiscence bump period.",

author = "{Zaragoza Scherman}, Alejandra and Sinu{\'e} Salgado and Zhifang Shao and Dorthe Berntsen",

year = "2014",

month = jun,

day = "18",

language = "English",

note = "Comparative Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory : What Humans and Non-Human Animals Remember About Their Past ; Conference date: 18-06-2014 Through 19-06-2014",

}

RIS

TY - CONF

T1 - What happens when we compare the lifespan distributions of life script events and autobiographical memories of life story events? A cross-cultural study

AU - Zaragoza Scherman, Alejandra

AU - Salgado, Sinué

AU - Shao, Zhifang

AU - Berntsen, Dorthe

PY - 2014/6/18

Y1 - 2014/6/18

N2 - Cultural Life Script Theory (Berntsen and Rubin, 2004), provides a cultural explanation of the reminiscence bump: adults older than 40 years remember a significantly greater amount of life events happening between 15 - 30 years of age (Rubin, Rahal, & Poon, 1998), compared to other lifetime periods. Most of these memories are rated as emotionally positive (Rubin & Berntsen, 2003). The cultural life script represents culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life events in an typical, idealised life course. By comparing the lifespan distribution of the life scripts events and memories of life story events, we can determine the degree to which the cultural life script serves as a recall template for autobiographical memories, especially of positive life events from adolescence and early adulthood, also known as the reminiscence bump period.

AB - Cultural Life Script Theory (Berntsen and Rubin, 2004), provides a cultural explanation of the reminiscence bump: adults older than 40 years remember a significantly greater amount of life events happening between 15 - 30 years of age (Rubin, Rahal, & Poon, 1998), compared to other lifetime periods. Most of these memories are rated as emotionally positive (Rubin & Berntsen, 2003). The cultural life script represents culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life events in an typical, idealised life course. By comparing the lifespan distribution of the life scripts events and memories of life story events, we can determine the degree to which the cultural life script serves as a recall template for autobiographical memories, especially of positive life events from adolescence and early adulthood, also known as the reminiscence bump period.

M3 - Poster

T2 - Comparative Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory

Y2 - 18 June 2014 through 19 June 2014

ER -

Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences