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He offers much-needed balance by drawing attention to emerging research on personal event memory...His book is replete with detailed examples of personal event memories from literature and psychological research. He deftly interweaves rich narrative with generalizations from research and theory.--Jon G. Allen, Ph.D. ""Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "" We all remember, of that there can be no doubt. Whether we remember accurately or inaccurately, in detail or in abstract, are questions that researchers have investigated for many years. However, there is another, more fundamental question: why do we remember at all?...Pillemer teases out these issues and they inevitably lead to a consideration of why we, as a species, have these rather curious mental representations. For Pillemer, part of the answer lies in his suggestion that autobiographical memories and the ability to have them provide a certain sort of social intelligence that could not be delivered in any other way...Autobiographical memories are the things that ground the self, and they ground it in the past. The classification of memories in this book provides a thoughtful insight into how this grounding might take place.--Martin Conway ""Nature "" research. He deftly interweaves rich narrative with generalizations from research and theory. the self, and they ground it in the past. The classification of memories in this book provides a thoughtful insight into how this grounding might take place.

We all remember, of that there can be no doubt. Whether we remember accurately or inaccurately, in detail or in abstract, are questions that researchers have investigated for many years. However, there is another, more fundamental question: why do we remember at all?...Pillemer teases out these issues and they inevitably lead to a consideration of why we, as a species, have these rather curious mental representations. For Pillemer, part of the answer lies in his suggestion that autobiographical memories and the ability to have them provide a certain sort of social intelligence that could not be delivered in any other way...Autobiographical memories are the things that ground the self, and they ground it in the past. The classification of memories in this book provides a thoughtful insight into how this grounding might take place. -- Martin Conway Nature

He offers much-needed balance by drawing attention to emerging research on personal event memory...His book is replete with detailed examples of personal event memories from literature and psychological research. He deftly interweaves rich narrative with generalizations from research and theory.--Jon G. Allen, Ph.D. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic We all remember, of that there can be no doubt. Whether we remember accurately or inaccurately, in detail or in abstract, are questions that researchers have investigated for many years. However, there is another, more fundamental question: why do we remember at all?...Pillemer teases out these issues and they inevitably lead to a consideration of why we, as a species, have these rather curious mental representations. For Pillemer, part of the answer lies in his suggestion that autobiographical memories and the ability to have them provide a certain sort of social intelligence that could not be delivered in any other way...Autobiographical memories are the things that ground the self, and they ground it in the past. The classification of memories in this book provides a thoughtful insight into how this grounding might take place.--Martin Conway Nature research. He deftly interweaves rich narrative with generalizations from research and theory. the self, and they ground it in the past. The classification of memories in this book provides a thoughtful insight into how this grounding might take place.

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