1st Edition
Autobiographical Memory: Exploring its Functions in Everyday Life A Special Issue of Memory
Edited By Susan Bluck
Copyright 2003
122 Pages
by
Psychology Press
This special issue of the Psychology Press journal Memory spotlights and aims to encourage research that uses a functional approach to investigate autobiographical memory (AM) in everyday life. This approach relies on studying cognition, in this case AM, taking into account the psychological, social, or cultural-historic context in which it occurs. Areas of interest include understanding to what... Read more
S. Bluck, Autobiographical Memory: Exploring its Functions in Everyday Life. K. Nelson, Self and Social Functions: Individual Autobiographical Memory and Collective Narrative. A.E. Wilson, M. Ross, The Identity Function of Autobiographical Memory: Time is on Our Side. M. Pasupathi, Emotion Regulation during Social Remembering: Differences between Emotions Elicited during an Event and Emotions Elicited When Talking about It. N. Alea, S. Bluck, Why are You Telling Me That?: A Conceptual Model of the Social Function of Autobiographical Memory. R. Fivush, L.J. Berlin, J. Cassidy, Functions of Parent-child Reminiscing about Emotionally Negative Events. D.B. Pillemer, Directive Functions of Autobiographical Memory: The Guiding Power of the Specific Episode. J.D. Webster, The Reminiscence Circumplex and Autobiographical Memory Functions.
Biography
Susan Bluck
'The special issue is undoubtedly an adavance toward understanding the field. The prsented ideas are likely to generate lively discussion of how this burgeoning sub-field of memory might move toward greater unity in the coming years.' - Babara Woike, Applied Cognitive Psychology
