A growing number of studies suggest the brain's “default network” becomes engaged when
individuals recall their personal past or simulate their future. Recent reports of heterogeneity …

Increasing evidence suggests that impaired autobiographical memory (AM) mechanisms
may be associated with the onset and maintenance of psychopathology. However, there is …

The act of projecting oneself into meaningful future events may significantly contribute to a
person's sense of self and identity. Yet if the role of memories, in particular self-defining …

Personal identity critically depends on the creation of stories about the self and one's life.
The present study investigates the neural substrates of autobiographical reasoning, a …

Personal identity is nourished by memories of significant past experiences and by the
imagination of meaningful events that one anticipates to happen in the future. The …

This article presents two studies that investigated the impact of the retrieval of self-defining
memories on individuals' sense of self. Participants recalled positive and/or negative self …

Two studies in different cultures (Study 1: USA, N= 174, Study 2: Trinidad, N= 167)
examined whether meaning making,(ie, both searching for meaning, and directing …

Self-defining memories are highly significant personal memories that contribute to an
individual's life story and identity. Previous research has identified 4 key subcomponents of …

Аннотация Целью данной статьи является расширение номенклатуры психологических
явлений, анализируемых в контексте методологии культурно-исторического подхода …

Self-defining future projections (SDFPs) have never been explored across lifespan. The
present study aimed to characterize those self-relevant narratives in three age groups …