Autobiographical Remembering as Cultural Practice: Understanding the Interplay between Memory, Self and Culture

By Qi Wang, Jens Brockmeier. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Mother–Child Conversations of Emotionally Salient Events: Exploring the Functions of Emotional Reminiscing in European-American and Chinese Families (2005, background): “…often take place simultaneously and may hold true across cultures, one process may be more predominant than the other in a given society (Fiske, Kitayama, Markus & Nisbett, 1998; Kagitcibasi, 1996; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Shweder & Bourne, 1984; Triandis, 1989; Wang & Brockmeier, 2002).”
Remembering and Forgetting: Narrative as Cultural Memory (2002, background): “In fact, the very idea of unique memories rooted in the autobiographical past of an individual self may itself be the result of particular Western narrative practices and conventions (see Wang and Brockmeier, 2002).”
Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development (2007, background): “However, future research remains to be done to determine if the configuration of experience and the function of stories is the same across cultures (see Wang & Brockmeier, 2002, for a discussion).”
The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience (2008, background): “…of culture and available literary genres on how people understand themselves and their lives in narrative terms (Bruner, 2003; Nelson, 2003a, 2003b; Wang & Brockmeier, 2002), (b) recognition of the mental aspects of other social agents (Cupchik & Hilscher, 2004), (c) links between remembered…”
Exploring Cross-cultural boundaries (2007, background): “Why is it that we assume that social animals such as human beings make the most coherent, or most meaningful sense of their lives when they are virtually stranded on their own with a stranger and a recording machine? Qi Wang and Jens Brockmeier describe autobiographical remembering as form of cultur”
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Autobiographical Memory (2005, background): “We chose to focus on the two groups because the respective cultures hold contrasting views of selfhood (Hsu, 1953; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Wang & Brockmeier, 2002), and empirical data with U.S. and Chinese samples have revealed systematic content differences in young adults’ childhood…”
Emotion Talk in Mother-Child Conversations of the Shared Past: The Effects of Culture, Gender, and Event Valence (2005, background): “These cultural variations in memory specificity and elaboration may result from different reminiscing styles between parents and children in the two cultures (see Fivush & Nelson, 2004, and Wang & Brockmeier, 2002, for reviews).”