ABSTRACT
The relatively limited time range of our studies compared to the human life span has prevented us from investigating the role of higher order autobiographical memory structures in event dating. Life periods, however they are defined, span intervals on the order of several years, that is, too long to be useful for people’s datings in a study spanning a couple of years at the most. Moreover, events that are clearly “significant to the self-system” (p. 8), as Nelson (1993) defined autobiographical memory, do not occur every day or every week.
