Autobiographical Memory and the Life Story - 9781009492126

Name: Autobiographical Memory and the Life Story - 9781009492126
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Autobiographical Memory and the Life StoryNew Perspectives on Narrative Identity\nAuthor(s): Christin Camia, Annette Bohn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009492126, 978-1009492126\nSynopsis\nAnswering the question 'How have you become the person you are today?' encourages people to build their narrative identity, referring to their ever-changing, internalized life story. Life stories are grounded in autobiographical memory and provide the basis for the experience of personhood; that is, the experience of being an individual with a past, present, and future in a certain culture at a certain time. Traditionally, researchers have approached the study of life story psychology either by focusing on autobiographical memories or through narratives of individual memories, life story chapters, or entire life narratives. This book is the first to bring these isolated approaches together to reveal new pe.