Developing Life Stories

Berntsen D. Rubin D. C. (2004). Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory. Memory & Cognition, 32, 427–442.

Bohn A. Berntsen D. (2008). Life story development in childhood: The development of life story abilities and the acquisition of cultural life scripts from late middle childhood to adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1135–1147.

Brown A. D. Dorfman M. Marmar C. R. Bryant R. A. (2012). The impact of perceived self-efficacy on mental time travel and social problem solving. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 299–306.

Erikson E. H. (1968). Identity, youth, and crisis. New York: Norton.

Fivush R. Haden C. Adam S. (1995). Structure and coherence of preschoolers’ personal narratives over time: Implications for childhood amnesia. Journal of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, 60, 32–50.

Friedman W. J. (1992). Children’s time memory: The development of a differentiated past. Cognitive Development, 7, 171–187.

Friedman W. J. Lyon T. D. (2005). Development of temporal reconstructive abilities. Child Development, 76, 1202–1216.

Habermas T. Bluck S. (2000). Getting a life: The emergence of the life story in adolescence. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 748–769.

Peterson C. (2002). Children’s long-term memory for autobiographical events. Developmental Review, 22, 370–402.

Peterson C. McCabe A. (1983). Developmental psycholinguistics: Three ways of looking at a child’s narrative. New York: Plenum.

Reese E. (2002). Social factors in the development of autobiographical memory: The state of the art. Social Development, 11, 124–142.

Singer J. A. (2004). Narrative identity and meaning making across the adult lifespan: An introduction. Journal of Personality, 72, 437–460.

van Abbema D. L. Bauer P. J. (2005). Autobiographical memory in middle childhood: Recollections of the recent and distant past. Memory, 13, 829–845.