Momentous Events, Vivid Memories

By David B. Pillemer. 2000

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Psychological theories of posttraumatic stress disorder. (2003, background): “More specific to PTSD is a contradictory pattern of recall related to the traumatic material itself, similar to that found in studies of emotion and memory in nonclinical samples: In some studies, high levels of emotion are associated with more vivid and long-lasting memories (e.g., Brown & Kulik, 1”
How to Tell a Life: The Development of the Cultural Concept of Biography (2007, background): “Characteristics of significant personal memories described in the literature, such as turning points (Pillemer, 1998), highly emotional events and events linked to unresolved conflicts (Singer & Salovey, 1993), and to enduring personal concerns (Conway, Singer, & Tagini, 2004) appear also to support”
Post–traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Evidence, Controversies and Future Directions (2014, background): “Turning points are episodes that appear to change and redirect the ongoing flow of an individual’s life course (Pillemer, 1998; Sutin, Costa, Wethington, & Eaton, 2010); often, a turning point might provide the impetus for the transition that makes a narrative redemptive (McAdams & Bowman, 2001).”
The emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory. (2004, background): “Women tend to have an earlier age of first memory than do men (Pillemer, 1998), and Asians have a later age of earliest memory than do European Americans (MacDonald, Uesiliana, & Hayne, 2000; Mullen, 1994; Pillemer, 1998).”
I'll keep you in mind: the intimacy function of autobiographical memory (2007, methodology): “” Separating the functions of memory into social, self, and directive categories (Bluck & Alea, 2002; Cohen, 1998; Pillemer, 1998), or intimacy and”
Momentous Events and the Life Story (2001, background): “Although educational research has focused almost exclusively on general and impersonal forms of learning and recall as measured by standardized test scores and grade point averages, personal event memories of school also may have a profound impact on academic and life success (Pillemer, 1998; Pillem”
Functions of Memory Sharing and Mother-Child Reminiscing Behaviors: Individual and Cultural Variations (2009, background): “For example, Pillemer (1998) notes how lessons can be learned from everyday mishaps, such as failing to check the commuter train schedules and having to walk a long distance home.”
Culture, Autobiographical Memory, and Behavioral Frequency Reports: Measurement Issues in Cross-Cultural Studies (2000, background): “In combination, these findings suggest that cultural differences in the construal of self are reflected in the accessible content of autobiographical memories (see also Pillemer, 1998; Weintraub, 1978).”
Elaborating on elaborations: role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development. (2006, background): “Autobiographical recall, in addition to involving the simple reporting of details about a past event, places the event in a coherent framework that explains how and why events happened as they did, and what these events mean for the self both as a continuous being in time and in relation to others (”
"REMEMBER WHEN YOU GOT THE BIG, BIG BULLDOZER?" MOTHER-CHILD REMINISCING OVER TIME AND ACROSS CULTURES (2007, background): “It appears that although reminiscing activities may be observed in all cultures, the forms and purposes of reminiscing seem to vary, reflecting different underlying values and socialization goals (Leichtman & Wang, 2005; Miller et al., 1997; Pillemer, 1998).”
Narrative identity and meaning making across the adult lifespan: an introduction. (2004, background): “…of narrative identity researchers, these scripted units of personality appear in different guises—nuclear episodes (McAdams, 1985), memorable events (Pillemer, 1998), self-defining memories (Singer, 1995), or autobiographical memory narratives (Bluck & Glück, this issue)—and operate at different…”
Personality and Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole Person (2005, unknown): “Contemporary narrative identity researchers have studied these scripted units of personality in different forms—nuclear episodes (McAdams, 1988), memorable events (Pillemer, 1998), self-defining memories (Singer, 1995), or autobiographical memory narratives (Bluck & Gluck, 2004)— and at different le”
Understanding minds: Different functions and different disorders? The contribution of psychotherapy research (2007, background): “A consistent self-narrative allows people to establish self-continuity and selfunderstanding (Habermas & Bluck, 2000; Neimeyer, 2004; Pillemer, 1998).”