How to tell a life: The development of the cultural concept of biography

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-31

  Habermas, Tilmann ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CHILDHOOD; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33847654174     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0801_1     Document Type: Article

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