The normative and the personal life: Individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates

Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-68

  Rubin, David C ^a   Berntsen, Dorthe ^b   Hutson, Michael ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autobiographical; Memory; Script

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149389349     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802541442     Document Type: Article

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