Autobiographical memories are never isolated episodes; they are embedded in a network that is continually updated and prediction driven. We present autobiographical memory as a meaning-driven process that includes both...
Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and...
Communion is a core psychological motive that contributes to well-being. Narrative expressions of communion are considered centrally important for personality but also are stereotypically associated with gender. Eight...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Meisels, Hannah Brier, and Azriel Grysman. "Confronting Self-Discrepant Events: Meaning-Making and Well-Being in Personal and Political...
This review examines cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social influence on autobiographical memory. We aim for this review to serve as a bridge between researchers who focus on veridicality (e.g., eyewitness memory)...
Talk about the past is a frequent part of everyday conversation. Whether we are chatting about our daily exploits, catching up with friends and family across the miles, or reuniting across the years, we tell stories of what has...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Grysman, Azriel, Natalie Merrill, and Robyn Fivush. Emotion, Gender, and Gender Typical Identity in Autobiographical Memory. 25, no. 3...
Gender differences in autobiographical memory (AM) are commonly reported, but often inconsistent across studies using varied measurement techniques. The current study aimed to provide more clarity to where and why gender...
Grysman, Azriel. Gender Differences in Episodic Encoding of Autobiographical Memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 6, no. 1 (2017): 51-59....
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Gender differences emerge regularly in autobiographical memory research. We suggest that gender differences in phenomenological self‐report measures of...
In this study, we examined the role of context in autobiographical memory narratives, specifically as it pertains to gender among emerging adults. Male and female participants reported stressful events in their lives in the...
Self and autobiographical memory are inextricably intertwined. From both cognitive and personality perspectives, theorists agree that who we are is very much defined by our remembered experiences (Conway, Singer, & Tagini,...
For more information on the published version, visit Springer's Website, Grysman, Azriel, Robyn Fivush, Natalie A. Merrill, and Matthew Graci. "The Influence of Gender and Gender Typicality on Autobiographical Memory Across...
The cultural life script (CLS) refers to expected prototypical life events, often including life transitions overwhelmingly occurring at ages 11-30. This study outlined CLS events at ages after the majority of these events...
The current study tested the effects of attentive versus distracted listening on both speakers and listeners in recall of an autobiographical memory. Participants included 128 pairs of friends who spoke with each other over a...
Published as:Grysman, Azriel, Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, and Greg Savage. Long-Married Couples Recall Their Wedding Day: The Influence of Collaboration and Gender on Autobiographical Memory Recall. Memory 28, no. 1...
Narrative research systematically codes individual differences in the ways in which participants story crucial events in their lives to understand the extent to which they create meaning and purpose (McAdams, 2008). These...
Both gender and narrative are foundational to the ways in which humans engage in meaning-making. Arguing from evolutionary, psychological and feminist theoretical perspectives, we posit that narratives and gender are culturally...
Coherent personal narratives employed for self-understanding (self function) and social proximity (social function) are theorized to inform life and the sense of self with meaning. Yet, it has not been tested whether this...
Researchers are increasingly using data coded from autobiographical memory narratives as a tool to explore autobiographical memory processes. Evidence of this trend includes recent guides for conducting effective narrative...
Editorial (Volume 37 Issue 2, December 2017):The following two issues of Imagination, Cognition, and Personality (Volume 37, issues 2 and 3) together comprise a special issue co-edited by Azriel Grysman and Cade Mansfield on...
Mintz, Gavriella, Chana Etengoff, and Azriel Grysman. The Relation between Childhood Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Shame and Guilt. Journal of Child and Family Studies 26, no. 10 (2017): 2908–2920....
For more information on the published version, visit Science Direct's Website., This study examined strategies employed to support a positive self-image in the face of dissonant self-related memories, especially focusing on the...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Grysman, Azriel, Janani Prabhakar, Stephanie M. Anglin, and Judith A. Hudson. "Self-Enhancement and the Life Script in Future Thinking Across...
Azriel Grysman, and Cade D. Mansfield. What Do We Have When We Have a Narrative?, in Narrative Methods in Cognitive and Personality Psychology Research, ed. Azriel Grysman and Cade D. Mansfield, special issue, Imagination,...