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life scripts

Description: In transactional analysis and psychotherapy, these are enduring, often unconscious patterns of beliefs and relational expectations that shape a person's life.
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Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory
2004 · Dorthe Berntsen, David C. Rubin · Memory & Cognition · 611
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What Do You Say After You Say Hello? the Psychology of Human Destiny
1978 · Eric Berne · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 540
The making of autobiographical memory: Intersections of culture, narratives and identity
2011 · Robyn Fivush, Tilmann Habermas, et al. · International Journal of Psychology · 420
Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events
2003 · David C. Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen · Memory & Cognition · 347
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Amputation or Reconstruction? Notes on the Concept of “Knifing Off” and Desistance From Crime
2007 · Shadd Maruna, Kevin Roy · Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice · 340
Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
1974 · Claude Steiner · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 271
The Person: An Introduction to Personality Psychology
1990 · Dan P. McAdams · 251
Early desistance narratives: A qualitative analysis of probationers’ transitions towards desistance
2013 · Sam King · Punishment & Society · 192
The normative and the personal life: Individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates
2008 · David C. Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen, et al. · Memory · 178
Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments
1973 · Nathan Hurvitz, Muriel James, et al. · The Family Coordinator · 160
Understanding the reminiscence bump: A systematic review
2018 · Khadeeja Munawar, Sara K. Kuhn, et al. · PLoS ONE · 139
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The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology
2005 · Dan P. McAdams · 132
Shopping Motives Constructionist Perspective
1992 · Francis Buttle · Service Industries Journal · 116
On the persistence of positive events in life scripts
2007 · Ahu Erdoğan, Bengi Baran, et al. · Applied Cognitive Psychology · 100
The package deal: marriage, work, and fatherhood in men's lives
2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 95
Age effects in cultural life scripts
2010 · Steve M. J. Janssen, David C. Rubin · Applied Cognitive Psychology · 93
Studies in script theory: I. Adult analogs of a childhood nuclear scene.
1981 · Rae Carlson · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 93
On the nature of autobiographical memory
2012 · Martin A. Conway, Laura Jobson · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 85
The time travelling self: Comparing self and other in narratives of past and future events
2013 · Azriel Grysman, Janani Prabhakar, et al. · Consciousness and Cognition · 78
Life Script Events and Autobiographical Memories of Important Life Story Events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark
2017 · Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman, Sinué Salgado, et al. · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 76
The future is bright and predictable: The development of prospective life stories across childhood and adolescence.
2012 · Annette Bohn, Dorthe Berntsen · Developmental Psychology · 69
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Narrative Identity and Personality Disorder: an Empirical and Conceptual Review
2020 · Majse Lind, Jonathan M. Adler, et al. · Current Psychiatry Reports · 68
The Reminiscence Bump Reconsidered
2010 · Annette Bohn, Dorthe Berntsen · Psychological Science · 68
Upaya Guru BK untuk Mengentaskan Masalah-Masalah Perkembangan Remaja dengan Pendekatan Konseling Analisis Transaksional
2018 · Netrawati Netrawati, Khairani Khairani, et al. · ISLAMIC COUNSELING Jurnal Bimbingan Konseling Islam · 67
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Life scripts – A transactional analysis of unconscious relational patterns
2011 · John Nuttall · Psychodynamic Practice · 66
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Citation count: 6,486
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