The cultural life script as cognitive schema: How the life script shapes memory for fictional life stories

Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 949-971

  Koppel, Jonathan ^a   Berntsen, Dorthe ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cultural life script; Distinctiveness; Memory for emotion; Remember know paradigm; Schemata

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COGNITION; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908469680     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.859269     Document Type: Article

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