“…In the context of autobiographical memory research, a transition is an event or a set of events that causes a significant and enduring change in the fabric of life-in what people do, where they do it, and with whom (Brown, 2016;Brown, Hansen, Lee, Vanderveen, & Conrad, 2012). Several studies have documented the mnemonic importance of transitions (Bohn & Habermas, 2015;Brown, Schweickart, & Svob, 2016;Enz, Pillemer, & Johnson, 2016;Shi & Brown, 2016;Uzer & Brown, 2015;Zebian & Brown, 2014). In particular, they demonstrated that (a) transitions are often used as temporal landmarks when people attempt to date personal events, and (b) memorable personal events tend to Bpile up^around transitional events.…”