What is it about?

This study investigates how people remember past social relationships and how they narrate them, with a particular stress on positive and negative type of relationships and on the similarities and differences between memory and narration processes

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Why is it important?

Very often a clear distinction between memory and narrative is not made. This study is important because shows how these two processes interact, how they are different and how they are close.

Perspectives

We believe that it is very important to make a distinction between memory and narrative because it allows to understand better how narrating influences remembering

Prof andrea smorti
University of Florence

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This page is a summary of: The Language of Memory: Narrating Memories of Parents and Friends, The Open Psychology Journal, September 2016, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101609010095.
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