Collective Memories of Germans and Japanese about the Past Half-century

Memory

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 427-454

  Schuman, Howard ^a,b   Akiyama, Hiroko ^a   Knäuper, Bärbel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Freie Universität Berlin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; GERMANY, WEST; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0032128886     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/741942611     Document Type: Article

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