Some Exploratory Findings on the Development of Musical Tastes

Holbrook, Morris B.; Schindler, Robert M.

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“…Whereas the previous examples were about memory for factual, historical information, this study is about what facts subjects thought should be considered as history. Holbrook and Schindler (1989) show a similar finding for popular music. Here, subjects ranging in age from 16 to 86 were asked to rate how much they liked 28 popular songs, 1 from each evenly numbered year between 1932 and 1986.…”

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Knowledge and judgments about events that occurred prior to birth: The measurement of the persistence of information

Rubin

1998

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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Data from five laboratories using five different techniques were reanalyzed to measure subjects' knowledge of events that occurred over the past 70 years. Subjects were about 20 years of age, so the measures included events that extended up to 50 years before birth. The functions relating knowledge about the events to age do not decrease precipitously at birth but gradually drop to above-chance levels. Techniques usually used to study retention within the individual can be used to study the persistence of ideas and fashions within an age cohort in a culture.Psychologists have studied retention extensively using a variety of techniques, including questions about events that occurred outside the laboratory (Rubin & Wenzel, 1996). The purpose ofthis paper is to use such techniques to measure the persistence of cultural or historical information by examining information for events that occurred prior to the birth of the person being tested.In questionnaire studies, younger adults often are asked questions about events that occurred before their birth to demonstrate that younger adults do not do as well as older adults who experienced and therefore have episodic memory for the events. Consider one carefully conducted study by Botwinick and Storandt (1980) in which groups of 20 subjects with the nominal ages of25, 35, 45, 55, 65, and 75 were asked questions about entertainment and current events, which were distributed uniformly across the oldest subjects' lives. The same questions were asked for recall and then as part ofa five-choice recognition test. Botwinick and Storandt's youngest three groups were asked questions about events that occurred over a span ofat least 20 years before they were born. By combining these three groups' data, fairly smooth curves were obtained for both the recall and the recognition questions. As is shown in Figure 1, the younger adults do much better for periods from which they were alive, but have some information about events that occurred before their birth. The recall scores remain well above 0%, and the recognition scores well above a 20% chance level, assuming all distracters were equally plausible to the target item. Botwinick and Storandt's younger participants' knowledge of the events that occurred before their birth is a measure of the history maintained by their culture. Unlike the events that occurred after birth, which could have both direct and indirect experience as sources ofleaming (Larsen, 1988), the I thank Erik Bergman and the editor for their help. Reprints are available from

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“…In spite of this difference and the change from the request for accurate information to a judgment of importance, the same . Preference for popular songs, from Holbrook and Schindler (1989). The standard errors were calculated from the 10 data points reported for each period.…”

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Knowledge and judgments about events that occurred prior to birth: The measurement of the persistence of information

Rubin

1998

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…Holbrook and Schindler (1989) selected popular music hits from the period 1932-1986 and asked participants to rate their preference for each hit on a 10-point scale. Holbrook and Schindler found an inverted U-shaped curve, which peaked at 24 years.…”

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“…Besides in the distributions of Western participants, it has also been found in the distributions of East-European (Janssen, Gralak, & Murre, in press) and Asian participants (Benson et al, 1992;Conway, Wang, Hanyu, & Haque, 2005;Kawasaki, Janssen, & Inoue, 2011). It appears that the reminiscence bump also occurs outside the autobiographical memory domain, because it has been found in the temporal distributions of favourite books, movies, and records (Holbrook & Schindler, 1989Janssen, Chessa, & Murre, 2007;Larsen, 1996;Schulkind, Hennis, & Rubin, 1999;Sehulster, 1996), in judgements of importance of public events (Schuman, Akiyama, & Knäuper, 1998;Schuman & Scott, 1989), and the temporal distribution of memory for public events (Holmes & Conway, 1999;Howes & Katz, 1988;Janssen, Murre, & Meeter, 2008;Rubin et al, 1998;Schuman, Belli, & Bischoping, 1997), and in the structure of a novel about a fictional character (Copeland, Radvansky, & Goodwin, 2009). …”

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

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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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“…In addition, reminiscence bumps have been found for age of encountering favorite films (Sehulster, 1996), songs (Holbrook & Schindler, 1989), and books (Larsen, 1996). Janssen, Chessa, and Murre (2007) directly compared distributions of first encounters with favorite books, films, and records and found reminiscence bumps for all three.…”

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