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This article is about autobiographical memory / recall, not autobiography as a genre of literature.
by danhak 7y ago
This article is about autobiographical memory / recall, not autobiography as a genre of literature.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoIsn't autobiography a written account of autobiographical memory?
- saurik 7y agoNo: one could easily imagine a world where you remember all of the bad stuff, but are still incentivized to not write it down; an autobiography is an edited work of text, while autobiographical memory is a capability of a human.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoYet autobiography is written by the person telling her own story. You could remember bad stuff but you are not incentized to write it down. Then how are they both different?
- scarejunba 7y agoDude, it's saying the things you remember about your history are biased positive. There is no writing down, there is no telling, there is no other person involved here. You are remembering your own past. In this past story, you bias positive in the things you remember.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoAnd when you remember it positively, would it not translate to written autobiographical accounts to be biased? Won't there be a correlation? Or am I missing something?
- rdfi 7y agoAutobiographic memory and an autobiography are two different things
- dineshdb 7y agoYes, there can be but here try to remove the context of writing it altogether. You tend to remember positive memories more than negative memories. That's how our memory works. Period.
- pdpi 7y agoYour memories are a function of what actually happened. What you write is a function of what you remember. Two separate processes. Bias on how you retell your own story is, as you say, a fairly obvious concern, so (for the purposes of this discussion) written autobiographies being biased is completely uninteresting. Rather, it's the fact that your recollection of events biases towards the positive that's the novel, interesting information.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoSo you agree there is a correlation and yet you somehow disagree with me. Let's agree to disagree