Department of Psychology, Zayed University , Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates.
Faculty of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology , Dresden , Germany.
Memory. 2019 Nov;27(10):1381-1389. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2019.1661494. Epub 2019 Sep 3.
Research has shown that individuals use a combination of cultural life script events and historical events when dating personal memories, providing evidence for a cultural life script effect and Living-in-History (LiH) effect on the temporal organisation of autobiographical memory. Yet, in contrast to life script events, the LiH effect has only been found for negative events such as war or natural disasters. Therefore, this study tested whether a positive historical event, here the fall of the Berlin Fall, also elicits a LiH effect and whether this effect would differ due to the subsequent changes in life. Comparing West and East Germans, we found a moderate LiH effect for the fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germans but not in West Germans. Yet, the LiH effect in East Germans did not relate to the perceived change in life or the valence of the historical event. Additionally, this study replicated the finding that life script events serve as temporal landmarks when navigating through one's autobiographical timeline.
研究表明，个体在约会个人记忆时会同时使用文化生活脚本事件和历史事件，这为自传体记忆的时间组织提供了文化生活脚本效应和历史生活效应（LiH）的证据。然而，与生活脚本事件相比，LiH 效应仅在战争或自然灾害等负面事件中被发现。因此，本研究测试了一个积极的历史事件，即柏林墙的倒塌是否也会产生 LiH 效应，以及这种效应是否会因随后的生活变化而有所不同。通过比较西德人和东德人，我们发现东德人对柏林墙倒塌的 LiH 效应适中，但西德人没有。然而，东德人的 LiH 效应与感知到的生活变化或历史事件的效价无关。此外，本研究复制了生活脚本事件作为在自传体时间线上导航的时间标记的发现。
