Stories are central to our world. We form our families, our communities, and our nations
through stories. It is through stories of our everyday experiences that each of us constructs …

Cognitive development occurs in cultural context. This chapter describes the complex and
multifaceted connection between culture and cognitive development and how it unfolds over …

This Element describes the main theories that guide contemporary research in cognitive
development along with research discoveries in several important cognitive abilities …

This Element delineates how the narrative expression of autobiographical memory develops
through everyday interactions that frame the forms and functions of autobiographical …

The extent to which highly emotional autobiographical memories become central to one's
identity and life story influences mental health. Young adults report higher distress and lower …

The study compares mothers' conversation with their 4‐year‐old children about two past
events in two autonomy‐oriented (35 German and 42 Swedish families), one relatedness …

In this study, maternal socialization goals in early childhood were linked to qualities of
children's self in middle childhood, while also considering maternal education and child …

Personal recollections constitute autobiographical memory that develops intensively during
the preschool years. The two-wave longitudinal study focuses on gender differences in …

Communication with children plays a crucial role not only for cognitive and social-emotional
development but also in a more general sense for an understanding of self and self in …

This dissertation presents three studies that focus on cultural variation of parenting beliefs
within Germany. Countries are often misleadingly taken as cultural units. However, the …