A wide variety of motivations for engaging with narratives have been proposed and studied. We propose that underlying these motivations is another, more fundamental motivation. Our premise is that maintenance, defense, and regulation of the personal and social self in daily life are demanding both emotionally and cognitively. Moreover, any individual self is constrained by capability, situation, and social role. Stories and identification with story characters provide a means individuals may use for temporary relief from the task of self-regulation and from the limitations of individual personal and social identities. Existing supportive research is acknowledged and implications explored, concerning contexts in which story involvement will ...
It\u27s human nature to desire stories – both to absorb other people\u27s narratives and to relate o...
Philosophers and psychologists have advanced a plethora of explanations of the self in relation to n...
Narrative identity is the internalized, evolving story of the self that each person crafts to provid...
Fictional narratives have the potential to influence people who read, view or listen to them. A body...
The present research introduces the concept of experience-taking—the imaginative process of sponta-n...
Self-schemas affect how people see themselves and how they tell their own stories (Moshman, 2011, Ru...
This chapter explores the nature of stories of self, both as they are told and lived in social life....
Eudaimonic media entertainment has been shown to promote mental health, however, our knowledge of th...
There are different approaches to the narrative self. I limit myself to one approach that argues nar...
What makes unique and unrepeatable individuals is their ability to write their own story attributing...
A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others is a collection of short stories about gossip, community, ...
about situated stories provide the backdrop for our major proposition, which is that situated storie...
Recent research has examined the theme-level determinants of how stories move readers. Our research ...
about situated stories provide the backdrop for our major proposition, which is that situated storie...
A case is made that encountering the narrative of another person is one of the ways the Self discove...
It\u27s human nature to desire stories – both to absorb other people\u27s narratives and to relate o...
Philosophers and psychologists have advanced a plethora of explanations of the self in relation to n...
Narrative identity is the internalized, evolving story of the self that each person crafts to provid...
Fictional narratives have the potential to influence people who read, view or listen to them. A body...
The present research introduces the concept of experience-taking—the imaginative process of sponta-n...
Self-schemas affect how people see themselves and how they tell their own stories (Moshman, 2011, Ru...
This chapter explores the nature of stories of self, both as they are told and lived in social life....
Eudaimonic media entertainment has been shown to promote mental health, however, our knowledge of th...
There are different approaches to the narrative self. I limit myself to one approach that argues nar...
What makes unique and unrepeatable individuals is their ability to write their own story attributing...
A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others is a collection of short stories about gossip, community, ...
about situated stories provide the backdrop for our major proposition, which is that situated storie...
Recent research has examined the theme-level determinants of how stories move readers. Our research ...
about situated stories provide the backdrop for our major proposition, which is that situated storie...
A case is made that encountering the narrative of another person is one of the ways the Self discove...
It\u27s human nature to desire stories – both to absorb other people\u27s narratives and to relate o...
Philosophers and psychologists have advanced a plethora of explanations of the self in relation to n...
Narrative identity is the internalized, evolving story of the self that each person crafts to provid...