ABSTRACT
In chapter 6, we vigorously advocated the notion that people routinely engage in temporal reconstruction (as opposed to some form of temporal recall), and we attempted to bolster this notion by documenting some of the specific sources of information that people apparently use in those reconstructions. We return to the theme of temporal reconstruction at several points in this chapter and present more evidence supporting this idea. However, another purpose of this chapter is to provide a more general view of patterns of accuracy and error in event dating and also to discuss several variables that may be related to those patterns.
