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This special issue of the Psychology Press journal Memory aims to encourage research that uses a functional approach to investigate autobiographical memory (AM) in everyday life. The papers in this issue include theoretical and empirical work by individuals who have made central contributions to our understanding of memory functions in their programmatic work. Previously hypothesized functions of AM fall into three broad domains: self, social, and directive. Each paper addresses how AM serves one or more of these functions and thereby examines the usefulness and adequacy of this trio.