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Most modern quantitative investigations of life stress depend upon cataloging the life experiences of individual subjects retrospectively over periods ranging from months to years (Dohrenwend & Dohrenwend, 19774; Gunderson & Rake, 1974). Although the unreliability of memory for important events in other contexts is well known (Anderson & Anderson, 1967; Haggard, Brekstad & Shard, 1960; Mechanic & Newton, 1965; Pany, Balter & Cisini, 1970–71; US National Health Survey, 1961, 1963; Wenar & Coulter, 1962), little attention has been paid the issue in relation to studies of life stress (Casey, Masuda, & Holmes, 1967). This paper reports decrements in recall over an l8 month period for stressful events in general, 41 individual events, and various subgroups of events.
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Uhlenhuth, E.H., Haberman, S.J., Balter, M.D., Lipman, R.S. (1977). Remembering Life Events. In: Strauss, J.S., Babigian, H.M., Roff, M. (eds) The Origins and Course of Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2355-6_7
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