A 3.5year diary study: Remembering and life story importance are predicted by different event characteristics

摘要: Forty-five participants described and rated two events each week during their first term at university. After 3.5 years, we examined whether event characteristics in the diary predicted remembering, reliving, life story importance follow-up. In addition, ratings of were consistent across a three year interval. Approximately 60% remembered, but only 20% these considered above medium to stories. Higher unusualness, rehearsal, planning an was remembered years later. goal-relevance, importance, emotional intensity, There moderate correlation between months after The results suggest that autobiographical memory stories are governed by different mechanisms memories characterized some degree stability.