Self-centered memories: The reminiscence bump and the self

Rathbone, Clare J.; Moulin, Chris J. A.; Conway, Martin

doi:10.3758/mc.36.8.1403

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“…In order to maintain a coherent self across the lifespan, experiences from one's youth, that is, the time in which individuals are expected to form an independent identity (e.g. Conway and Holmes 2004;Erikson 1950;Habermas and Bluck 2000), are frequently recalled (Conway 2005;Rathbone et al 2008). The life script account, in contrast, postulates that the retrieval of AMs is shaped by culturally shared representations of the timing in which important transitional life events (e.g.…”

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The distribution and the functions of autobiographical memories: Why do older adults remember autobiographical memories from their youth?

Wolf¹,

Zimprich²

2016

Eur J Ageing

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In the present study, the distribution of autobiographical memories was examined from a functional perspective: we examined whether the extent to which long-term autobiographical memories were rated as having a self-, a directive, or a social function affects the location (mean age) and scale (standard deviation) of the memory distribution. Analyses were based on a total of 5598 autobiographical memories generated by 149 adults aged between 50 and 81 years in response to 51 cue-words. Participants provided their age at the time when the recalled events had happened and rated how frequently they recall these events for self-, directive, and social purposes. While more frequently using autobiographical memories for self-functions was associated with an earlier mean age, memories frequently shared with others showed a narrower distribution around a later mean age. The directive function, by contrast, did not affect the memory distribution. The results strengthen the assumption that experiences from an individual's late adolescence serve to maintain a sense of self-continuity throughout the lifespan. Experiences that are frequently shared with others, in contrast, stem from a narrow age range located in young adulthood.

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The distribution and the functions of autobiographical memories: Why do older adults remember autobiographical memories from their youth?

Wolf¹,

Zimprich²

2016

Eur J Ageing

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“…BEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS OF ALL TIME The identity-formation (or life-narrative) account assumes that people form their identity in adolescence and early adulthood (Conway, 2005(Conway, , 2009Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000;Rathbone, Moulin, & Conway, 2008; also see Fitzgerald, 1988see Fitzgerald, , 1996. Many self-defining memories, which are vivid and emotional memories of personal events that have a large impact on the identity of a person (Conway, Singer, & Tagini, 2004), occur in these lifetime periods.…”

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The Reminiscence Bump in the Temporal Distribution of the Best Football Players of All Time: Pelé, Cruijff or Maradona?

Janssen

Rubin

Conway

2012

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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The reminiscence bump is the tendency to recall more autobiographical memories from adolescence and early adulthood than from adjacent lifetime periods. In this online study, the robustness of the reminiscence bump was examined by looking at participants' judgements about the quality of football players. Dutch participants (N = 619) were asked who they thought the five best players of all time were. The participants could select the names from a list or enter the names when their favourite players were not on the list. Johan Cruijff, Pelé, and Diego Maradona were the three most often mentioned players. Participants frequently named football players who reached the midpoint of their career when the participants were adolescents (mode = 17). The results indicate that the reminiscence bump can also be identified outside the autobiographical memory domain.

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“…The importance of motivational aspects of confabulation is demonstrated by the inclusion of personal biases in several recent cognitive formulations of confabulation (see Gilboa et al, 2006;Metcalf, Langdon & Coltheart., 2007;Fotopoulou et al, 2007bFotopoulou et al, , 2008. Several experimental studies provide support for the role of the self in autobiographical memories (Rathbone et al, 2008(Rathbone et al, , 2009) and future events (Rathbone et al, 2011). Recent evidence examining how the contents of long term memory are sampled to imagine future events (Szpunar & McDermott, 2008) indicates that inaccurate future plans could reflect distorted autobiographical memories.…”

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Implausible future events in a confabulating patient with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm

Cole

Fotopoulou

Oddy³

et al. 2013

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Patient MW, a known confabulator, and healthy age-matched controls produced past and future events. Events were judged on emotional valence and plausibility characteristics. No differences in valence were found between MW and controls, although a positive emotional bias toward the future was observed. Strikingly, MW produced confabulations about future events that were significantly more implausible than those produced by healthy controls whereas MW and healthy controls produced past events comparable in plausibility. A neurocognitive explanation is offered based on differences between remembering and imagining. Possible implications of this single case in relation to confabulation and mental time travel are discussed.Past and Future Confabulation 3

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Self-centered memories: The reminiscence bump and the self

Cited by 180 publications

References 50 publications

The distribution and the functions of autobiographical memories: Why do older adults remember autobiographical memories from their youth?

The distribution and the functions of autobiographical memories: Why do older adults remember autobiographical memories from their youth?

The Reminiscence Bump in the Temporal Distribution of the Best Football Players of All Time: Pelé, Cruijff or Maradona?

Implausible future events in a confabulating patient with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm

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