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Narrative identity and meaning making across the adult lifespan: an introduction.
  • J. Singer
  • Psychology
    Journal of personality
  • 1 June 2004
TLDR
In a quiet but consistent way, a new subdiscipline of personality psychology—narrative identity research—has emerged, and it is clear that there is a body of midcareer and younger empirical researchers who place narrative identity at the center of personality.
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The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence
Abstract A modified version of Conway and Pleydell-Pearce's Self Memory System (SMS) account of autobiographical memory and the self is introduced. Modifications include discussion of a fundamental…
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Four dimensions of self-defining memories (specificity, meaning, content, and affect) and their relationships to self-restraint, distress, and repressive defensiveness.
TLDR
Individual differences in the four dimensions of 10 self-defining memories collected from 103 undergraduates to scores of self-restraint, distress, and repressive defensiveness, as measured by the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory were compared.
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The Remembered Self: Emotion and Memory in Personality
In The Remembered Self Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into one's life story, revealing characteristic moods, motives, and thinking…
Older, wiser, and happier? Comparing older adults’ and college students’ self-defining memories
TLDR
Older adults’ self-defining memories, compared to those of younger adults, were more positive in emotional tone, more summarised and less detailed, and more likely to contain integrative meaning.
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Self-defining memories, scripts, and the life story: narrative identity in personality and psychotherapy.
TLDR
An integrative model of narrative identity builds on a dual memory system that draws on episodic memory and a long-term self to generate autobiographical memories to achieve insight and well-being.
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Mood and memory: Evaluating the network theory of affect
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Mood Regulation and Memory: Repairing Sad Moods with Happy Memories
A total of 106 undergraduates participated in a study examining how individuals retrieve memories to repair negative moods. Participants first completed a measure of depression. Two weeks later,…
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Continuity in the Life Story: Self-Defining Memories, Affect, and Approach/Avoidance Personal Strivings
ABSTSACT To study affective responses to memories and their relationship to personal strivings, 117 participants (65 males, 52 females) wrote selfdefining memories and indicated their affective…
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Thought Flow: Properties and Mechanisms Underlying Shifts in Content
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