Abstract: The parent-child autobiography narrative which means that parent and child talking about the past experiences, is a part of social function of autobiographical memory. The social function of parent-child autobiography narrative showed the education for child and keeping in intimacy. From the perspective of the style, construct and content of parent-child autobiography narrative, this paper expounded the influences of parent-child autobiography narrative on the cognition, social emotion, and the representation of children’s autobiographical memory. The future research trends could pay more attention to the type of cued materials and integrate theory of mind, social classes, longitudinal design into it.

Key words: autobiographical memory, social function, autobiography narrative, social culture