Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend
thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that …

People constantly talk about past experiences. Burgeoning psychological research has
examined the role of communication in remembering by placing rememberers in …

Feminist and queer epistemologies have been influential throughout the social sciences by
means of the development of a set of interrelated approaches involving positionality …

In this volume, Qi Wang traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of
the autobiographical self-the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the …

How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National …

Forgetting is often considered a fundamental cognitive failure, reflecting the undesirable and
potentially embarrassing inability to retrieve a sought-after experience or fact. For this …

The development of shared memories, beliefs, and norms is a fundamental characteristic of
human communities. These emergent outcomes are thought to occur owing to a dynamic …

Collective memory refers to recollection of events shared by a group. The topic has been of
central interest in the humanities, but recently researchers have begun empirical studies …

Ten weeks after the 1941 Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the US
government authorized the removal of more than 110,000 Japanese American men, women …

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of
'vulnerable'groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their …