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memory
Most of your core identity formed in late adolescence.
The 'reminiscence bump' is the tendency for older adults to have increased recollection of events from their teenage years and early twenties.
Studies indicate that people retrieve a disproportionate number of memories from this developmental window compared to any other period of their lives. These years serve as the period where your autobiographical narrative is most heavily constructed.
You are still looking at your world through the lens of your younger self.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Rubin, Rahhal, and Poon, 1998
- What the check found
- The definition is standard, and the cited 1998 study by Rubin, Rahhal, and Poon is a foundational paper on this specific effect.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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