Brazilian Life Scripts: Reminiscence Bump Location and Characteristics of Life Events

Abstract The life script construct refers to the semantic knowledge shared by individuals from a given culture and reflects expectations about when specific events are supposed happen. This study aimed identify whether for Brazilian its characteristics exists. Three hundred eighty-four participants reported seven most important in of hypothetical newborn their same gender culture. For each event, they informed an estimate age levels importance, prevalence, valence. Our results showed that cited were considered positive expected happen before 30. ages 15 30 had (51.9%). Events rated as more prevalent important. discussed representations lifetime development benchmarks within population compared other countries’ data on scripts.