𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉

𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔

Autobiographical Memory
Retrieval Processes · Emotion · Involuntary Memory

Memory & Psychopathology
Autobiographical Memory · Traumatic Memories · Maladaptive Cognition

Collective Memory
Public Events · Social Identity · Intergenerational Transmission

Narratives & Well-Being
Narrative Coherence · Reminiscence Functions · Well-Being

Cognition & Life Transitions
Rumination · Overgeneral Memory · Transitional Events

𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔

𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚

This project aims to understand involuntary, direct voluntary, and generative retrieval processes in autobiographical memory by disentangling the roles of intention, effort, and processing fluency.

Although these dimensions have often been measured together in the literature, they have rarely been manipulated independently within the same experimental design. In addition, “direct” and “involuntary” retrieval have frequently been used interchangeably.

By addressing these two critical gaps, the project aims to make both a conceptual contribution by clarifying categories of autobiographical memory retrieval, and a methodological contribution by independently manipulating the underlying dimensions.

This approach will allow us to empirically test the overlapping and diverging predictions of the Self-Memory System and threshold-based models.

𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚

Previous research has made important contributions to the collective memory literature, but it remains limited in explaining how public events are organized in the human mind and which factors shape this organization.

Understanding how public events are represented, how information is stored, and how these representations are interconnected is important because their structure directly influences how individuals make sense of social events and remember events from the collective past.

These processes of meaning-making and remembering also shape individuals’ perceptions of their groups and social identities. Identifying the principles underlying the organization of collective memory is therefore essential for understanding how social knowledge is transmitted across generations.

Within this project, we aim to contribute to the literature by investigating how public events, as a core form of collective memory, are organized in the human mind.

𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 & 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍-𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈

Understanding how autobiographical memories are structured as narratives, how these narratives serve distinct psychological functions, and how these functions contribute to well-being is crucial.

Narrative organization directly shapes individuals’ sense of identity, their ability to regulate emotions, and their capacity to derive meaning from life experiences. These processes are especially important during periods of stress and transition, when maladaptive narrative patterns may undermine psychological resilience.

Within this project, we aim to systematically examine how narrative properties of autobiographical memories shape their functional roles and, in turn, influence mental health and well-being.