The Science of Stories

This book explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research, the book demonstrates how the way in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their world and their own identity.

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.

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.