Table of Contents

Contents: R.C. Schank, R.P. Abelson, Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story. J.H. Harvey, R. Martin, Celebrating the Story in Social Perception, Communication and Behavior. R.F. Baumeister, L.S. Newman, The Primacy of Stories, the Primacy of Roles, and the Polarizing Effects of Interpretive Motives: Some Propositions About Narratives. W.F. Brewer, To Assert That Essentially All Human Knowledge and Memory is Represented in Terms of Stories is Certainly Wrong. A.C. Graesser, V. Ottati, Why Stories? Some Evidence, Questions and Challenges. R. Hastie, N. Pennington, The Big Picture: Is It a Story? S.J. Read, L.C. Miller, Stories are Fundamental to Meaning and Memory: For Social Creatures, Could it be Otherwise? D.C. Rubin, Stories About Stories. L.M. Scott, Representation and Narrative: A Commentary on Schank and Abelson's "Knowledge and Memory." P.J. Miller, Personal Storytelling In Everyday Life: Social and Cultural Perspectives. K. Nelson, Stories in Memory: Developmental Issues. J.G. Holmes, S.L. Murray, Memory for Events in Close Relationships: Applying Schank and Abelson's Story Skeleton Model. E. Mankowski, J. Rappaport, Stories, Identity and the Psychological Sense of Community. R.P. Abelson, R.C. Schank, So All Knowledge isn't Stories?

About the Author

Jr., Robert S. Wyer

Reviews

"If one has an interest in how psychologists understand and use stories to reveal what people know and how they understand their own lives and the lives of others, this volume is a very useful source. In particular, the research programs and related literature detailed by the commentators are impressive for the range of topics studied through obtaining narrative accounts of participants."
—Minds and Machines"...timely in its application, novel in its approach, and precise in its explication."
—International Journal of Psychology