Essay as the Autobiographical Heresy

An autobiographical essay.

was forced to confess it. Although it was late, my mother immediately sent for Dr. Scott who promptly diagnosed a perforated appendix and arranged for me to be taken to Edinburgh for surgery. I was taken to be operated on by the surgeon to a well-known nursing home (1 7 Ainslie Place) which, as I well knew, was far beyond my father's means. Thereafter, this being long before the advent of penic...

An autobiographical essay

Ken and Donald McIntyre worked on what was to be The Story of APL & J in 2004 through a series of e-mail messages, with the last e-mail from Ken coming in the morning of Saturday, 2004-10-16. Now Donald McIntyre’s health prevents him continuing work on The Story of APL & J. The following autobiographical sketch has been extracted from the manuscript, which Vector hopes eventually to publish in ...

Cancer research in historical perspective: an autobiographical essay.

An overview of fifty years in cancer research: autobiographical essay.

Regret as autobiographical memory.

We apply an autobiographical memory framework to the study of regret. Focusing on the distinction between regrets for specific and general events we argue that the temporal profile of regret, usually explained in terms of the action-inaction distinction, is predicted by models of autobiographical memory. In two studies involving participants in their sixties we demonstrate a reminiscence bump f...