Personal Memory Telling and Personality Development

Thorne, Avril

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“…In conclusion, the interface between personal and social worlds has become more and more apparent in the burgeoning field of memory telling (see Pasupathi, 2001;Thorne, 2000Thorne, , 2004. Examining both the person-level individual differences in the construction of a narrative identity as well as locating the abstract entity of identity in lived experience moves the field toward a more concrete and rich understanding of how identity is constructed and communicated.…”

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Late Adolescent Identity Development: Narrative Meaning Making and Memory Telling.

McLean

2005

Developmental Psychology

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Personally important autobiographical memories are the smallest unit of the life story, which begins to emerge in adolescence. This study examined 2 features of self-defining memories in late adolescence, the meaning made of the memories to garner an understanding of the narrative construction of identity as a life story and how those memories were told with an emphasis on the functions for telling and audiences to understand the social component of narrative identity development. For late adolescents (N ϭ 185), meaning was infrequently reported for the entertainment function in comparison with the self-explanation function. At later ages, adolescents' audiences were more likely to be peers, and at earlier ages, adolescents' audiences were more likely to be parents. Discussion focuses on the individual and social levels of identity construction that are apparent in personally important autobiographical memory narratives.

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Late Adolescent Identity Development: Narrative Meaning Making and Memory Telling.

McLean

2005

Developmental Psychology

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“…Although extraversion and introversion may be developmentally elaborated on many levels of language use, the story has a special status in personality development because stories are a means of preserving, evaluating, and broadcasting experiences that are deemed sufficiently noteworthy to be remembered and told (McAdams, 2001;Thorne, 2000). The present study used the story rather than the utterance as the basic unit of analysis, and focused on the storytelling process in conversations with friends.…”

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“…In a study of TAT stories, extraverts more often imported other characters into stories about a solitary figure than did introverts (Shapiro & Alexander, 1975). And in a study of conversations, extraverted strangers were found to explore more topics and to claim more common ground than did introverted strangers (Thorne, 1987).Although extraversion and introversion may be developmentally elaborated on many levels of language use, the story has a special status in personality development because stories are a means of preserving, evaluating, and broadcasting experiences that are deemed sufficiently noteworthy to be remembered and told (McAdams, 2001;Thorne, 2000). The present study used the story rather than the utterance as the basic unit of analysis, and focused on the storytelling process in conversations with friends.…”

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Channeling identity: A study of storytelling in conversations between introverted and extraverted friends

Thorne

Korobov

Morgan

2007

Journal of Research in Personality

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This narrative study examined the process of personal storytelling between college-age friends who were similarly introverted or extraverted. Participants were 19 introverted and 20 extraverted samesex pairs (49 percent female) who had been friends for an average of 18 months. Stories emerged spontaneously during 10-minute catch-up conversations. Extraverted friends more often told stories that changed the topic, and more often co-constructed story plots. Introverted friends more often told stories that were embedded in a developing theme, and constructed story plots solo. With regard to content, extraverted friends told stories about romance more so than introverted friends, whose stories more often concerned family/hometown, and older events. The findings suggest that the traits of extraversion and introversion channel the identity-making process. Keywordsintroversion; extraversion; friendship; stories; identity; narrative; discourse; traits; conversation One cannot grasp the most profound logic of the social world unless one becomes immersed in the specificity of an empirical reality (Bourdieu, 1993, p. 271) With the advent of narrative psychology (Bruner, 1990), the concept of personality has expanded beyond the domain of traits, such as extraversion, to encompass identity, or the sense that people make of their lives through telling stories (McAdams, 2001). This expansion of the concept of personality to include life stories has enhanced the degree to which personality psychology attends to the whole person (McAdams, 1995), but the expansion has not been easy. A notable difficulty in connecting traits and life stories is that traits tend to be construed as genetic endowments, and life stories as psychosocial constructions (McAdams, 2001). However, it is now widely recognized that traits such as extraversion, while genetically based (e.g., Plomin, Chipuer, & Loehlin, 1990), become developmentally elaborated through psychosocial processes (Caspi, 1998).The present study builds on the idea that traits help to channel the development of other domains of personality (McLean & Pasupathi, 2006;Winter, John, Stewart, Klohnen, & Duncan, 1998). We investigated this channeling by exploring how people actively construct or "do" personality in everyday life (Cantor, 1990). A performative approach to the development of personality traits has been well-articulated by Caspi (1998), whose model of developmental Address correspondence to: Avril Thorne, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Psychology, 277 Social Sciences 2, Santa Cruz, CA 95064,, E-mail: avril@ucsc.edu. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, an...

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“…Os achados não desmentem o argumento (Thorne, 2000) de que não há uma memória primordial, ou um conjunto central de memórias importantes, e sim que escolhemos de um repertório relativamente grande de eventos passíveis de serem relatados e que podem mudar de um contexto para outro. Na verdade, a ênfase nos julgamentos de memórias vívidas depõe exatamente nesse sentido, de elucidar o processo de escolha a partir da consideração da interação de possíveis critérios que determinam a escolha de um ou outro evento numa dada situação, em resposta a determinada tarefa.…”

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Recordação de eventos pessoais: memória autobiográfica, consciência e julgamento

Gauer

Gomes

2008

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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RESUMO -A recordação de eventos pessoais marcantes é acompanhada de julgamentos relativos ao evento recuperado (reflexivos) e ao ato de lembrar em si (heurísticos). O presente estudo teve por objetivo explorar relações e distinções entre esses tipos de julgamentos na atribuição de importância pessoal a eventos autobiográficos. Para tanto, solicitou-se a 208 estudantes universitários (170 mulheres) que recordassem um evento marcante de vida e respondessem a um Questionário de Memória Autobiográfica, composto de 16 escalas. Em uma análise de componentes principais, o primeiro agrupou 10 variáveis referentes a qualidades fenomenais e a modalidades de imaginação. Um segundo componente agrupou seis variáveis referentes a julgamentos reflexivos. A importância atribuída ao evento encontrou-se mais relacionada a julgamentos reflexivos por meio dos quais o indivíduo atribui características ao evento de forma retroativa do que a qualidades fenomenais da experiência imediata de lembrar.Palavras-chave: memória autobiográfica; fenomenologia; julgamento. Recollecting Personal Events: Autobiographical Memory, Consciousness and JudgmentABSTRACT -The recollection of remarkable autobiographical events is accompanied by judgments about the recovered event (reflexive) and about the act of recollecting itself (heuristic). This study aimed at exploring relations and distinctions between these kinds of judgments in the process of conveying personal relevance to autobiographical events. For such, 208 college students (170 women) were required to recollect a remarkable event of their lives and to fill a 16-item Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire. Based on a main components analysis, the first grouped 10 variables related to phenomenal qualities and imagery modalities. A second component comprised six variables related to reflexive judgments. The rated importance of the event was more closely related to reflexive judgments by which an individual retroactively ascribes properties to the event than to phenomenal qualities of the immediate recollection experience.

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Personal Memory Telling and Personality Development

Cited by 250 publications

References 41 publications

Late Adolescent Identity Development: Narrative Meaning Making and Memory Telling.

Late Adolescent Identity Development: Narrative Meaning Making and Memory Telling.

Channeling identity: A study of storytelling in conversations between introverted and extraverted friends

Recordação de eventos pessoais: memória autobiográfica, consciência e julgamento

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