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A talk by Christin Camia.聽Guests from outside of 黑料正能量 must register 48 hours in advance.

Autobiographical memories are shared in form of narratives in order to regulate emotions聽(Pascuzzi & Smorti, 2017)聽and to gain insight into the personal meaning that the event might bear for the self聽(Conway, Singer, & Tagini, 2004). Although individuals share the vast majority of their experiences聽(Rim茅, Finkenauer, Luminet, Zech, & Philippot, 1998), especially emotional events聽(Luminet, Bouts, Delie, Manstead, & Rim茅, 2000), other events are kept secret聽(Pasupathi, McLean, & Weeks, 2009). Telling events is theorized to be the context, throughout which the construction of coherence, meaning making, and emotional processing occurs聽(Habermas, 2018; McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007). As a consequence, undisclosed events may exhibit less coherence, meaning making, or emotional processing.

Testing this hypothesis, this study compared disclosed and undisclosed events of 180 undergraduates (Mage = 20.47; SD = 3.35). More specifically, I assessed how different aspects of the event, the self, and the relationships influence disclosure and narrative meaning making. Results show that events are disclosed independent of valence, mostly to close others, and shortly after the event had happened. Further, disclosed events are more coherent and show more meaning made than undisclosed events. The degree to which individuals include close relationships in their self-concepts (relational self-aspect) does not influence disclosure, but, together with perceived social support and a supportive listener, predicts positive and negative meaning making.聽聽聽

Christin Camia聽completed her PhD Degree in Psychology from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany in 2015. She conducts research on Autobiographical Memory and Narrative Identity. After having worked at New York University Abu Dhabi, she has been appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology in Zayed University Abu Dhabi.