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There is more to life stories than memories

Pages 445-457 | Received 15 Aug 2008, Published online: 08 Apr 2009

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Anne Mai Pedersen, Krista Nielsen Straarup & Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen. (2022) “My life disappeared in illness”: bipolar disorder and themes in narrative identity. Memory 30:7, pages 857-868.
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Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen & Anna Vedel. (2019) Relationships among Personal Life Stories, Vicarious Life Stories about Mothers and Fathers, and Well-being. Identity 19:3, pages 230-243.
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Michelle D. Leichtman, Kristina L. Steiner, Kaitlin A. Camilleri, David B. Pillemer & Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen. (2019) What happened in kindergarten? Mother-child conversations about life story chapters. Memory 27:1, pages 49-62.
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Majse Lind & Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen. (2018) Functions of personal and vicarious life stories: identity and empathy. Memory 26:5, pages 672-682.
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Anne Mai Pedersen, Krista Nielsen Straarup & Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen. (2018) Narrative identity in female patients with remitted bipolar disorder: a negative past and a foreshortened future. Memory 26:2, pages 219-228.
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Igor Knez. (2014) Place and the self: An autobiographical memory synthesis. Philosophical Psychology 27:2, pages 164-192.
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Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Martin Hammershøj Olesen, Anette Schnieber & Jan Tønnesvang. (2014) The emotional content of life stories: Positivity bias and relation to personality. Cognition and Emotion 28:2, pages 260-277.
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Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, DavidB. Pillemer & Zorana Ivcevic. (2011) Life story chapters, specific memories and the reminiscence bump. Memory 19:3, pages 267-279.
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