Emotionally Charged Autobiographical Memories Across the Life Span: The Recall of Happy, Sad, Traumatic, and Involuntary Memories

By Dorthe Berntsen, David C. Rubin. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Annette Bohn
2. Dorthe Berntsen
3. David C. Rubin
4. Jonathan Koppel
5. A. Boals
6. D. Schuettler

In Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

1. Annette Bohn
2. Jonathan Koppel
3. Dorthe Berntsen

In Social Psychology

1. Annette Bohn
2. Jonathan Koppel
3. Dorthe Berntsen
4. David C. Rubin

Citations in the corpus

• Emotion and vantage point in autobiographical (2006, background): “…perspective Although valence has less consistent effects on autobiographical memory characteristics than arousal (Talarico et al., 2004), valence is an important dimension in emotion (e.g., Lang, 1994) that is often overlooked in studies of memory for emotional events (Berntsen & Rubin, 2002).”
• Generational differences in cultural life scripts and life story memories of younger and older adults (2010, methodology): “The valence of the life script events was scored as positive, neutral or negative according to the results from Berntsen and Rubin (2004). Life script events not present in the Berntsen”
• The peaks of life: The differential temporal locations of the reminiscence bump across disparate cueing methods (2015, methodology): “2 One might object to our inclusion, noted above, of studies in which participants were asked to report specific types of memories, such as their happiest and/or saddest memory (e.g., Berntsen & Rubin, 2002), Research in Memory and Cognition.”