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Why Am I Remembering This Now? Predicting the Occurrence of Involuntary (Spontaneous) Episodic Memories
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Berntsen, Dorthe; Staugaard, Soren Rislov; Sorensen, Louise Maria Torp – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Involuntary episodic memories are memories of events that come to mind spontaneously, that is, with no preceding retrieval attempts. They are common in daily life and observed in a range of clinical disorders in the form of negative, intrusive recollections or flashbacks. However, little is known about their underlying mechanisms. Here we report a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recall (Psychology), Attention, Information Retrieval
The Future Is Bright and Predictable: The Development of Prospective Life Stories across Childhood and Adolescence
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Bohn, Annette; Berntsen, Dorthe – Developmental Psychology, 2013
When do children develop the ability to imagine their future lives in terms of a coherent prospective life story? We investigated whether this ability develops in parallel with the ability to construct a life story for the past and narratives about single autobiographical events in the past and future. Four groups of school children aged 9 to 15…
Descriptors: Child Development, Adolescent Development, Autobiographies, Imagination
Life Story Development in Childhood: The Development of Life Story Abilities and the Acquisition of Cultural Life Scripts from Late Middle Childhood to Adolescence
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Bohn, Annette; Berntsen, Dorthe – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Children, Adolescents
Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Properties of Voluntary and Involuntary, Traumatic and Nontraumatic Autobiographical Memories in People with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms
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Rubin, David C.; Boals, Adriel; Berntsen, Dorthe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
One hundred fifteen undergraduates rated 15 word-cued memories and their 3 most negatively stressful, 3 most positive, and 7 most important events and completed tests of personality and depression. Eighty-nine also recorded involuntary memories online for 1 week. In the first 3-way comparisons needed to test existing theories, comparisons were…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Memory, Severity (of Disability), Depression (Psychology)