Generational Memory and the Critical Period: Evidence for National and World Events

Howard Schuman · Amy D. Corning

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Abstract We bring together survey data from sources both new and old in order to test the generational hypothesis that national and world events experienced during a ‘‘critical period’ ’ of later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood have a disproportionate effect on memories, attitudes, and actions in later life. We also consider competing explanations for the same evidence, especially interpretations based on period and recency effects. Our data come from nine surveys, mostly national, carried out in the United States between 1985 and 2010, and from surveys in six other

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