Table Of ContentPart 1. The Emergence of the Self and Memory. Denise R. Beike, James M. Lampinen, Douglas A. Behrend, Evolving Conceptions of the Self and Memory. Jochen Barth, Daniel J. Povinelli, John G. H. Cant, Bodily Origins of Self. Mark L. Howe, Early Memory, Early Self, and the Emergence of Autobiographical Memory. Part 2. Narrative Conceptions of the Self and Memory. Robyn Fivush, The Silenced Self: Constructing Self from Memories Spoken and Unspoken. Dan P. McAdams, The Redemptive Self: Narrative Identity in America Today. Jefferson A. Singer, Pavel Blagov, The Integrative Function of Narrative Processing: Autobiographical Memory, Self-defining Memories and the Life Story of Identity. Part 3. The Self and Memory for Emotionally Valenced Information. Denise R. Beike, Erica E. Kleinknecht, Erin T. Wirth-Beaumont, How Emotional and Non-Emotional Memories Define the Self. Constantine Sedikides, Jeffrey D. Green, Brad Pinter, Self-Protective Memory. Part 4. The Self and Memory across Time. John J. Skowronski, W. Richard Walker, Andrew L. Betz, Who Was I When That Happened? The Timekeeping Self in Autobiographical Memory. Jessica J. Cameron, Anne E. Wilson, Michael Ross, Autobiographical Memory and Self-Assessment. James M. Lampinen, Timothy N. Odegard, Juliana K. Leding, Diachronic Disunity. James M. Lampinen, Denise R. Beike, Douglas A. Behrend, The Self and Memory: It's about Time.
SynopsisHow we think of ourselves depends largely on what we remember from our lives, and what we remember is biased in many ways by how we think of ourselves. The complex interplay of the self and memory is the topic of this volume., Noted scholars from a broad range of sub-disciplines in psychology discuss the ways in which the memories of our lives come to influence who we are, our personalities, and our emotional functioning. Other topics covered include how our personalities and self-concepts influence what we remember from our lives, and the notion of memory and the self as interdependent psychological phenomena.