Robyn Fivush is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the field of autobiographical memory. She is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University, College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, GA. Fivush is also affiliated with the Department of Women's Studies at Emory.
Biography
editFivush received her PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY in 1983, where she worked with Katherine Nelson. From 1983 to 1984, Fivush was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Human Information Processing, University of California at San Diego.[1] Throughout her career Fivush has focused on the development of autobiographical memory and its connection to parent-child conversational practices, gender, and self-identity. She has written over 150 scholarly articles and books.
Research
editFivush has a theory that the more you know about your family's history the better you'll be mentally. It consists of 20 "Yes or No" questions that she believes children should not have the ability to answer because they haven't learned it first hand.[2][3]
Another focus of Fivush's research is on narratives and autobiographical memory.
Selected Works
edit- Fivush, R., Brotman, M. A., Buckner, J. P., & Goodman, S. H. (2000). Gender differences in parent–child emotion narratives. Sex Roles, 42(3-4), 233-253.
- Golombok, S., & Fivush, R. (1994). Gender development. Cambridge University Press.
- Nelson, K., & Fivush, R. (2004). The emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory. Psychological review, 111(2), 486.
- Reese, E., Haden, C. A., & Fivush, R. (1993). Mother-child conversations about the past: Relationships of style and memory over time. Cognitive development, 8(4), 403-430.
References
edit- ^ "Robyn Fivush Ph.D." Psychology Today.
- ^ Duke, Marshall P. (23 March 2013). "The Stories That Bind Us: What Are the Twenty Questions?". The Huffington Post.
- ^ "The Root of All Things: 20 Questions". Good Housekeeping. 5 November 2013.