Remembering autobiographically consequential experiences: Content analysis of psychologists' accounts of their lives.

1 January 1991

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychology and Aging

Vol. 6 (1) , 50-59
https://doi.org/10.1037//0882-7974.6.1.50

Abstract

The autobiographies of 49 eminent psychologists were content analyzed in terms of autobiographically consequential experiences (ACEs). Most memories for ACE were not single episodes. Episodic ACEs did, however, share many characteristics of "flashbulb" and vivid memories elicited in studies using more traditional experimental procedures. Memories were concentrated during the college and early adult years. Thus, as in other autobiographical memory studies that have used older subjects, there was a pronounced reminiscence effect. These results were considered in light of Erikson's theory of adult personality development.

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