Assessing the Impact of “The Collapse” on the Organization and Content of Autobiographical Memory in the Former Soviet Unionстатья
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Аннотация:It can be argued that the Collapse of the Soviet Union was the most important
historical event of the past 50 years. This study assessed the mnemonic impact
of this event in Russia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan. It involved three tasks. First,
participants thought aloud as dated autobiographical events. Second, they drew a
personal timeline. Finally, they answered questions concerning the psychological
and material consequences of the Collapse. Across the samples, we found (1) the
Collapse was almost never used as a temporal landmark, (2) it was rarely included
in timeline drawings, and (c) participants did not experience it as a major life-changing event. These findings argue against theProportionality Assumption—the
notion that themnemonic impact of a public event is related to its historical impor-tance. Instead, they suggest that historically significant events play an important
role in autobiographical memory only when they dramatically affect people’s
material circumstances.