Perspectives on Psychological Science http://pps.sagepub.com/ Why We Remember and What We Remember : Culture and Autobiographical Memory Michael Ross and Qi Wang Perspectives on Psychological Science 2010 5: 401 DOI: 10.1177/1745691610375555 The online version of this article can be found at: http://pps.sagepub.com/content/5/4/401 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Association For Psychological Science Additional services and information for Perspectives
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What people remember shapes their understanding of themselves and their world. Who are we and do we even understand ourselves in our space before we try understanding anything else? In our rather busy lives today‚ we sometimes forget to take deep breaths and look at ourselves for who we really are. Our memories are there to guide us to establishing who we are. The line between selective memory and short term memory is dependent on our world. What we chose to remember someone else doesn’t and it
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people would do‚ right? But is it really? Because we didn’t forget 9/11 and we didn’t forget the death of thousands of innocent people. In fact‚ every September 11th “’Never forget‚ 9/11” is tweeted at least a thousand times. Clearly‚ we want to remember this day‚ and the people it took. And we most definitely should!
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An offering by Sandra Benitez‚ A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a tale of love and anger‚ hope and tragedy‚ filled with haunting characters. Its setting is the Mexican village of Santiago‚ where Remedios‚ the healer‚ listens to the peoples’ stories and gives them advice. The healer goes to the sea to tell it her stories‚ and in turn‚ the sea tells its stories to her. "The sea listens‚ and the sea retells." At the heart of this tale is Chayo (19)‚ the flower-seller‚ and her husband‚ Candelario
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they mocked anyone who wasn’t part of their group. They found Vanessa as a threat so they made her a target even though she was part of this clique. They made her believe that she was overweight when she was actually average weight. In A Walk to Remember‚ Landon was part of a clique for a
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I remember the day I first came to America. I was in the LAX airport‚ looking around the totally strange place which was full of strangers. All I could hear was the strangers’ buzzing. At that moment‚ I realized that I was in America‚ and my heart started to beat fast. Until April 25‚ 2006 I had never been away from my country‚ Korea. For 18 years‚ I had grown up being around people who used the same language as me and had black hair and brown eyes. I was having.... However‚ my mother wanted to
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“You Must Remember This” is a podcast created by Karina Longworth‚ who is a former film critic for the LA weekly and founder of Cinematical.com. Karina not only writes the episodes‚ she also produces and edits the original copy. It really is‚ as the description calls it‚ her passion project. You can hear that passion in every word she speaks; with her sultry tone that emulates the classic Hollywood she is describing. Karina accomplishes this by making the timbre of her voice very warm‚ trailing off
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Should We Remember the Holocaust? People seem to have different opinions on whether or not we should remember the holocaust. There is also questions about if we should teach our students about it or just let the past stay in the past.Soon enough you will understand why it is so important for everyone around us to know about this tragic event. There are many important reasons for remembering the Holocaust: it teaches students about the history of the past‚ helps prevent genocides from recurring‚
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I remember this day like it happened yesterday. I was a sophomore in high school and Thanksgiving had just past. I had fallen asleep watching a movie in the living room we had in the basement. It was about eight o’clock and I was woken up by a loud thump. Thinking someone had dropped something‚ I went back to sleep. It was when I heard my dad running above when I knew something was wrong. I ran up the stairs and watched as he ran into my Grandpa’s room which was right off the living room. He then
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In his speeches Hitler spread his beliefs in racial purity and in the superiority of the Germanic race‚ what Hitler called an Aryan master race”. For Hitler‚ the ideal Aryan was blonde haired‚ blue eyed‚ and tall. Bachrach‚ Susan. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. New York: Little Brown & Company‚
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