Autobiographical memory is a uniquely human system that integrates memories of past
experiences into an overarching life narrative. In this review, I extend social-cultural models …

Initial research on maternal reminiscing style established clear and consistent individual
differences that vary along a dimension of maternal elaboration and that are related to …

Human memory, as a product of the mind and brain, is inherently private and personal. Yet,
arising from the interaction between the organism and its ecology in the course of phylogeny …

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective
languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such …

Four-year-olds Robbie and Jamila are pretending to be firefighters. They have firefighters'
hats and boots, and even a fire engine on which to ride. They have a plush Dalmatian dog …

We review the literature on Chinese parents' views and practices through the lens of
Confucianism. Confucianism advances seven developmental goals for children–knowledge …

Emotion socialization aims to promote children's emotion competence. Children's
competence is embedded in cultural contexts that influence caregivers' expectations of …

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 …

The life story is a special cognitive-communicative format which allows understanding
persons from a biographical perspective through autobiographical reasoning and life …

Gender differences have surfaced in inconsistent ways in autobiographical memory studies.
When apparent, researchers find gender differences such that women report more vivid …