- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Digital media accompanying the book
- Chapter 1 Collaborative Remembering: Background and Approaches
- Chapter 2 Socializing Early Skills for Remembering Through Parent–Child Conversations During and After Events
- Chapter 3 Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
- Chapter 4 Collaborative Inhibition in Group Recall: Cognitive Principles and Implications
- Chapter 5 Social Aspects of Forgetting
- Chapter 6 Memory Conformity Following Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 7 The Socially Shared Nature of Memory: From Joint Encoding to Communication
- Chapter 8 Collaborative Remembering and Reminiscence in Older Adults
- Chapter 9 Memories and Identities in Conversation with Dementia
- Chapter 10 Multimodal Processes of Joint Remembering in Complex Collaborative Activities
- Chapter 11 Contextualizing Autobiographical Remembering: An Expanded View of Memory
- Chapter 12 Collaborative Processes in Neuropsychological Interviews
- Chapter 13 Collaborative Memory Knowledge: A Distributed Reliabilist Perspective
- Chapter 14 Group-level Cognizing, Collaborative Remembering, and Individuals
- Chapter 15 Remembering Good and Bad Times Together: Functions of Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 16 Collective Memory: How Groups Remember Their Past
- Chapter 17 Culture in Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 18 Encouraging Collaborative Remembering Between Young Children and Their Caregivers
- Chapter 19 Parent–Child Construction of Personal Memories in Reminiscing Conversations: Implications for the Development and Treatment of Childhood Psychopathology
- Chapter 20 Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
- Chapter 21 Digital Media and the Precarity of Memory
- Chapter 22 Design Applications for Social Remembering
- Chapter 23 Applications of Collaborative Memory: Patterns of Success and Failure in Individuals with Hippocampal Amnesia
- Chapter 24 Collaborative Memory Interventions for Age-Related and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Memory Decline
- Chapter 25 Collaborative Remembering in Dementia: A Focus on Joint Activities
- Chapter 26 Concluding Remarks: Common Themes and Future Directions
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
- Chapter:
- (p.38) Chapter 3 Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
- Source:
- Collaborative Remembering
- Author(s):
Robyn Fivush
Widaad Zaman
Natalie Merrill
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
We examine the developing social functions of autobiographical memory across childhood from a sociocultural perspective. We focus on family storytelling, and argue that reminiscing facilitates social and emotional bonds among family members. We delineate both the process of reminiscing, sharing our past with others in conversation, and the content of reminiscing, reminiscing about people, and reflecting on the value of those relationships. Elaborated family reminiscing, both about shared experiences and intergenerational narratives told by the older generation to the younger generation, emerges from more secure early parent–child attachment relationships, and facilitates the maintenance of family bonds through adolescence. Intriguingly, females may use autobiographical narratives to create and maintain socioemotional bonds with others to a greater extent than do males.
Keywords: narrative, autobiographical memory, family storytelling, intergenerational narratives, gender
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Digital media accompanying the book
- Chapter 1 Collaborative Remembering: Background and Approaches
- Chapter 2 Socializing Early Skills for Remembering Through Parent–Child Conversations During and After Events
- Chapter 3 Developing Social Functions of Autobiographical Memory within Family Storytelling
- Chapter 4 Collaborative Inhibition in Group Recall: Cognitive Principles and Implications
- Chapter 5 Social Aspects of Forgetting
- Chapter 6 Memory Conformity Following Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 7 The Socially Shared Nature of Memory: From Joint Encoding to Communication
- Chapter 8 Collaborative Remembering and Reminiscence in Older Adults
- Chapter 9 Memories and Identities in Conversation with Dementia
- Chapter 10 Multimodal Processes of Joint Remembering in Complex Collaborative Activities
- Chapter 11 Contextualizing Autobiographical Remembering: An Expanded View of Memory
- Chapter 12 Collaborative Processes in Neuropsychological Interviews
- Chapter 13 Collaborative Memory Knowledge: A Distributed Reliabilist Perspective
- Chapter 14 Group-level Cognizing, Collaborative Remembering, and Individuals
- Chapter 15 Remembering Good and Bad Times Together: Functions of Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 16 Collective Memory: How Groups Remember Their Past
- Chapter 17 Culture in Collaborative Remembering
- Chapter 18 Encouraging Collaborative Remembering Between Young Children and Their Caregivers
- Chapter 19 Parent–Child Construction of Personal Memories in Reminiscing Conversations: Implications for the Development and Treatment of Childhood Psychopathology
- Chapter 20 Forensic Applications of Social Memory Research
- Chapter 21 Digital Media and the Precarity of Memory
- Chapter 22 Design Applications for Social Remembering
- Chapter 23 Applications of Collaborative Memory: Patterns of Success and Failure in Individuals with Hippocampal Amnesia
- Chapter 24 Collaborative Memory Interventions for Age-Related and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Memory Decline
- Chapter 25 Collaborative Remembering in Dementia: A Focus on Joint Activities
- Chapter 26 Concluding Remarks: Common Themes and Future Directions
- Author Index
- Subject Index