1st Edition
The Science of Stories An Introduction to Narrative Psychology
1. The Place of Narrative in Psychology. 2. Foundations of Narrative Psychology. 3. Narrative Psychology and Postmodernism. 4. Narrative Psychology's Contribution to the Second Cognitive Revolution. 5. On Representation. 6. Theory of Social Representations. 7. Identity and Narrative. 8. Language and Soul. 9. Narrative Psychological Content Analysis. 10. The Computerization of Content Analysis in Narrative Psychology. 11. Reliability and Validity Studies of the Narrative Content-Analytic Programs. 12. Social Memory and Social Identity: The Social Psychology of History. 13. National Identity in the Mirror of Folk History. 14. Roots and Perspectives of Scientific Narrative Psychology. Appendix. References.
Biography
János Lászó is professor of social psychology at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and the University of Pécs, where he is currently head of the Institute of Psychology and of the Doctoral School in Psychology.
"Lazlo has put together one of the most intellectually compelling books on narrative psychology that has been written. This book should be studied by scholars across all the social sciences and humanities." - James W. Pennebaker, University of Texas at Austin, USA
"This book combines an excellent overview and expansion of the field of narrative psychology. Its scholarship is outstanding: it is comprehensive, integrative, and advances the state of the art. It is a text that I would use for my own research and that I would definitely recommend to my students." - Sandra Jovchelovitch, London School of Economics, UK
