2018
DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000113
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Psychology of Narrative Art

Abstract: Artistic narrative has been recognized in fictional genres such as poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and films. It occurs also in nonfictional genres such as essays and biographies. We review evidence on the empirical exploration of effects of narrative, principally fiction, on how it enables people to become more empathetic, on how foregrounded phrases encourage readers to recognize the significance of events as if for the first time in ways that tend to elicit emotion, and on how literary works can help … Show more

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“…This perspective is crucial in psychotherapy. Fortunately, during the last three decades, the narrative trend is more and more visible in the research of psychologists [28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This perspective is crucial in psychotherapy. Fortunately, during the last three decades, the narrative trend is more and more visible in the research of psychologists [28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Por tanto, de acuerdo con el principio de identificación de Oatley y Djikic (2017), se sugiere que un entorno emocional sea uno de los modelos mentales propuestos en el mundo narrativo, en este caso, para enmarcar la vivencia afectiva. Con este entorno, y dado el principio de empatía (Oatley y Djikic, 2017), los lectores exploran y comprenden las vivencias afectivas de otros (las Pfs), modalizadas por la instancia narrativa autorizada a través de las formas de evidencialidad lingüística presentes. Kovecses (2000) expone dos recursos de evidencialidad emocional para el universo textual.…”
Section: Ruta Teórica-metodológicaunclassified
“…With the help of stories, we can emotionally and cognitively relive other people's experiences. Stories function like simulations [42]. This capability of stories connects the geographic data, the statistics, and the maps with the evaluating power of the individual.…”
Section: Character-driven Narrativementioning
confidence: 99%