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diary method  

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  • Method for studying autobiographical memory. Subjects are asked to write down the events they experience in a diary during a given period of time, and then to remember them. This method provides an indication of how accurate the memories are by comparing them with the information in the diary.

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  • diary recording method

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Linton, M. (1975). Memory for real-world events. In D. A. Norman & D. E. Rumelhart (Eds.), Explorations in cognition (pp. 376–404). W.H. Freeman.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Schnitzspahn, K. M., Scholz, U., Ballhausen, N., Hering, A., Ihle, A., Lagner, P., & Kliegel, M. (2016). Age differences in prospective memory for everyday life intentions: A diary approach. Memory, 24(4), 444–454. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1018276

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Singh, L., Ahmed Pihlgren, S., Holmes, E. A., & Moulds, M. L. (2023). Using a daily diary for monitoring intrusive memories of trauma: A translational data synthesis study exploring convergent validity. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 32(1), e1936. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1936

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Sotgiu, I. (2021). Eight memory researchers investigating their own autobiographical memory: Applied Cognitive Psychology. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1631–1640. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3888

    [Study type: literature review / Access: free]
  • • Wagenaar, W. A. (1986). My memory: A study of autobiographical memory over six years. Cognitive Psychology, 18(2), 225–252. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(86)90013-7

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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