Remembering our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory

Cambridge University Press, 3/14/1996
EAN 9780521461450, ISBN10: 0521461456

Hardcover, 460 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

The recent attempt to move research in cognitive psychology out of the laboratory makes autobiographical memory appealing, because naturalistic studies can be done while maintaining empirical rigor. Many practical problems fall into the category of autobiographical memory, such as eyewitness testimony, survey research, and clinical syndromes in which there are distortions of memory. Its scope extends beyond psychology into law, medicine, sociology, and literature. Work on autobiographical memory has matured since David Rubin's Autobiographical Memory appeared in 1986, and the timing is right for a new overview of the topic. Remembering our Past presents innovative research chapters and general reviews, covering such topics as emotions, eyewitness memory, false memory syndrome, and amnesia. The volume will appeal to graduate students and researchers in cognitive science and psychology.

Introduction
1. Introduction David C. Rubin
Part I. Approaches
2. What is recollective memory? William F. Brewer
3. Autobiographical knowledge and autobiographical memories Martin A. Conway
4. Autobiographical remembering
narrative constraints on objectified selves Craig R. Barclay
Part II. Accuracy
5. Time in autobiographical memory Steen F. Larsen, Charles P. Thompson and Tina Hansen
6. The pliability of autobiographical memory
misinformation and the false memory problem Robert F. Belli and Elizabeth F. Loftus
7. Autobiographical memory in court Willem A. Wagenaar
Part III. Emotions
8. Perspective, meaning, and remembering John A. Robinson
9. Emotional events and emotions in autobiographical memories Sven-Ake Christianson and Martin A. Safer
10. Depression and the specificity of autobiographical memory J. M. G. Williams
Part IV. Social Functions
11. Remembering as communication
a family recounts its past William Hirst and David Manier
12. Group narrative as the cultural context of autobiography Jerome Bruner and Carol Fleisher Feldman
13. Memories of college
the importance of specific educational episodes David B. Pillemer, Martha L. Picariello, Anneliesa Beebe Law and Jill S. Reichman
Part V. Development and Disruption
14. Remembering, recounting, and reminiscing
the development of autobiographical memory in social context Robyn Fivush, Catherine Haden and Elaine Reese
15. Intersecting meanings of reminiscence in adult development and aging Joseph M. Fitzgerald
16. Schizophrenic delusion and the construction of autobiographical memory Alan D. Baddeley, Andrew Thornton, Siew Eng Chua and Peter McKenna.