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"The reminiscence bump is the effect that people recall more personal events from early adulthood than from childhood or adulthood. The bump has been examined extensively. However, the question if the bump is caused by differential encoding or by re-sampling is still unanswered. To examine this issue, participants were asked to give their three favourite books, movies and records. Furthermore, they were asked when they first read, saw or heard them. We compared the temporal distributions and found that they all showed a recency effect and a reminiscence bump, but the distribution of the favourite books had the largest recency effect and the distribution of favourite records had the largest reminiscence bump. These two effects are caused by a difference in rehearsal. Books are read only once, movies are watched more frequently, whereas records are played numerous times. The results suggest that differential encoding initially causes the reminiscence bump, but re-sampling strengthens the bump."

Via Mind Hacks