Making sense of life stories: the role of narrative perspective in perceiving hidden information about social identity

Pólya, Tibor; László, János; Forgas, Joseph P.

doi:10.1002/ejsp.277

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“…The studies confirm that severity of an event is the single most important factor for determining the size an emotional reaction (Frijda, 2007), even though this effect was attenuated in Study 2 by the differential effect of dispositional empathy. This parallels the findings of Polya, Laszlo and Forgas (2005) that the content of a story has a stronger effect than narrative perspectives do. Besides event severity, initial emotional state, or mood, and dispositional ways of handling emotions and of empathizing with others influenced both the strength and quality of narrative emotions.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

The emotional impact of loss narratives: Event severity and narrative perspectives.

Habermas¹,

Diel²

2010

Emotion

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Out of the complex influences of event, narrative and listener characteristics on narrative emotions, this paper focuses on event severity, narrative perspectives, mood, and dispositions for emotion regulation and empathy. Event severity and perspective representation were systematically varied in sad autobiographical narratives to study their influence on quantity and quality of readers' emotional response. Each of three stories were manipulated to contain elaborated perspectives, only the past protagonists' perspective (dramatic narration), and very little perspectives at all (impersonal narration). We predicted that event severity influences the quantity of emotional response, while degree of perspective representation influences plausibility and whether emotional responses are sympathetic or interactional, that is, directed against the narrator. Hypotheses were confirmed except for plausibility, and perspective representation had an effect only on anger against and dislike of the narrator. In a second study, impersonal narration evoked anger at and negative evaluations of the narrator which were related to blaming the narrator for showing too little emotional involvement. The generalizability of findings across emotions and implications for sharing of emotions in everyday and clinical settings are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

The emotional impact of loss narratives: Event severity and narrative perspectives.

Habermas¹,

Diel²

2010

Emotion

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“…As noted earlier, autobiographical memory is inherently social, as people simultaneously cocreate autobiographical memory and social identity (Polya, Laszlo, & Forgas, 2005). Comparable effects occur at the organizational level, as the imprinted components of the integrative transactive autobiographical memory system help to select, prioritize, and organize the storage of new content within organizational memory.…”

Section: Organizational Memory and Identitymentioning

confidence: 93%

Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation

Bryant

2014

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Entrepreneurial ventures need frequently to adapt. Yet their adaptive capacity is often limited by the legacies of imprinted founding characteristics. The question then arises whether it is possible to explain and manage the imprinting process so that the capacity to adapt is enhanced, rather than diminished. I address this question by developing a model of the microfoundations of imprinting based in collective memory. I argue that entrepreneurial founding teams naturally develop transactive autobiographical memory systems. By partially managing the design and imprinting of these memory systems, I argue that founders may improve their venture's long–term capacity to adapt.

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“…A word that seems to stand apart from the others is narratives. However, by examining it in its context (the abstract), it can be seen that it is most often used as a stimulus (e.g., in vignettes) and rarely within the narrative approach (but see Polya, Laszlo, & Forgas, 2005). Many methods are thus absent or highly under-represented, in line with the absence of some perspectives, as discussed above.…”

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Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social: Publication trends in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1971 to 2016

Rizzoli

Castro

Tuzzi

et al. 2018

Euro J Social Psych

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The European Journal of Social Psychology (EJSP), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology (SP). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all abstracts of the Journal (1971–2016). Themes, processes, methods, and their organisation in cycles and clusters over time, were identified and analysed. Regarding diversity, findings indicate that the publications reflect several of the new theoretical proposals that emerged over the years, but do not fully reflect the variety of perspectives and methods of the discipline. It further indicates that lately the ‘social’ is predominantly present in attention to pressing social issues, albeit the processes involved in them are mostly theorised at an individualistic level. This pattern suggests the importance of keeping open the quest for epistemological and methodological diversity, and of re‐problematising what the ‘social’ in SP means. By contributing to mapping the history of SP, offering a more comprehensive and reflexive view for it, the present analyses also help in forging a stronger discipline.

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Making sense of life stories: the role of narrative perspective in perceiving hidden information about social identity

Cited by 38 publications

References 16 publications

The emotional impact of loss narratives: Event severity and narrative perspectives.

The emotional impact of loss narratives: Event severity and narrative perspectives.

Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation

Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social: Publication trends in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1971 to 2016

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