The reminiscence bump: why America's greatest year was probably when you were young
Guardian's news covers Taylor, Garry and Burton-Wood's research from 2017.During his campaign, Donald Trump had promised American citizens to make America great again. But in which year America was great? How do people decide which year was the greatest? Taylor and his colleagues investigated these questions by taking into consideration the literature on the reminiscence bump.
In his interview with New York Times Trump promised to make America great again and assert that the late 40 and 50's were the greatest years of America. But for Trump to make America great again he should be in the same opinion with the American citizens. So New York Times asked "What …show more content…
They investigated these two questions by three studies.
Taylor and his colleagues expected that collective and nationally relevant memories to give rise to American's choice of America's greatest year. So they looked back to New York Times research to analyze whether people's choice matches with important events from American history. The data showed poor match between the people's choice and important events from history for example only 1% of Americans chose 1776 as America's greatest year which is the year of Declaration of Independence.
The autobiographical memory literature shows that people choose events between the ages 10-30 when asked to tell their most important personal events. There is a period called reminiscence bump between the ages 10-30 in which people are better at recalling their personal events that happened between these ages. When probing method used or people asked to recall freely their autobiographical memories, there was seen a reminiscence bump between ages 10-30.The fact that America's greatest year is an important public event it is possible to see a bump between ages 10-30.It is useful to note that previous research has found bump for public events which occur earlier …show more content…
The news generally talked about reminiscence bump for personal events and do not give any reason about the 10-year difference between reminiscence bump and public bump. People nominated their personal greatest from ages 10-30 but when asked for America's greatest they nominated years between 0-20.The article also did not cover this shift much since their research is not adequate but while reading both the article and the news I mostly wondered about the reason for this
Guardian's news covers Taylor, Garry and Burton-Wood's research from 2017.During his campaign, Donald Trump had promised American citizens to make America great again. But in which year America was great? How do people decide which year was the greatest? Taylor and his colleagues investigated these questions by taking into consideration the literature on the reminiscence bump.
In his interview with New York Times Trump promised to make America great again and assert that the late 40 and 50's were the greatest years of America. But for Trump to make America great again he should be in the same opinion with the American citizens. So New York Times asked "What …show more content…
They investigated these two questions by three studies.
Taylor and his colleagues expected that collective and nationally relevant memories to give rise to American's choice of America's greatest year. So they looked back to New York Times research to analyze whether people's choice matches with important events from American history. The data showed poor match between the people's choice and important events from history for example only 1% of Americans chose 1776 as America's greatest year which is the year of Declaration of Independence.
The autobiographical memory literature shows that people choose events between the ages 10-30 when asked to tell their most important personal events. There is a period called reminiscence bump between the ages 10-30 in which people are better at recalling their personal events that happened between these ages. When probing method used or people asked to recall freely their autobiographical memories, there was seen a reminiscence bump between ages 10-30.The fact that America's greatest year is an important public event it is possible to see a bump between ages 10-30.It is useful to note that previous research has found bump for public events which occur earlier …show more content…
The news generally talked about reminiscence bump for personal events and do not give any reason about the 10-year difference between reminiscence bump and public bump. People nominated their personal greatest from ages 10-30 but when asked for America's greatest they nominated years between 0-20.The article also did not cover this shift much since their research is not adequate but while reading both the article and the news I mostly wondered about the reason for this