Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity

By Phillip L. Hammack. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Identity Development in Context (2016, background): “Master narratives have been largely defined as culturally shared stories that guide thoughts, beliefs, values, and behaviors [e.g., Bamberg, 2004; Hammack, 2008, 2011; Thorne & McLean, 2003].”
Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology (2012, methodology): “…study linking psychological and political phenomena is concerned with the way in which stories serve to construct collective identity through the transmission of collective memory and the creation of myths that support that memory (e.g., Bar-Tal, 2007; David & Bar-Tal, 2009; Hammack, 2008).”
Narrative, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion: Social Change and the Gay and Lesbian Life Course (2011, background): “The empirical project, then, seems to be interrogating the relation between these master narratives—these cultural scripts accessible in artifacts such as media, educational materials, and political rhetoric—and the personal narratives of youth (see Hammack 2008 ).”
Special Thematic Section on "Societal Change" A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems (2013, background): “By creating meaning, narratives provide ideologies with their psychological resonance (Hammack, 2008;Westen, 2007).”
A Gendered Approach to Adolescent Dating Violence: Conceptual and Methodological Issues (2009, methodology): “Hammack (2008) adopts a cultural psychology framework and proposes a tripartite model of identity as having cognitive, social, and cultural components.”
Intergroup Schadenfreude: motivating participation in collective violence (2015, neutral): “, [40]).”
Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim or perpetrator identity ☆ (2013, background): “…is the “real” victim of the conflict are evident at both the collective level (e.g. in these groups' historical narratives; Baram & Klar, 2012; see also Hammack, 2008) and the interpersonal level (e.g. in encounters between Jewish and Palestinian participants in dialog groups; Sonnenschein, 2008).”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “From there, various theories explain how competition creates negative stereotypes of and emotional prejudice and hatred toward an outgroup (Brewer & Campbell, 1976), group narratives that justify unequal treatment of ingroup versus outgroup individuals (Hammack, 2008), and behavioral discrimination ”
Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age (2020, background): “Cultural values and norms are transmitted to its members through master narratives (Bamberg, 2004; Hammack, 2008; McLean & Syed, 2015; Thorne & McLean, 2003).”
Exploring psychological themes through life narrative accounts (2012, background): “Cultural psychologists describe how individuals appropriate and negotiate society’s master narratives in the making of self (Hammack, 2008).”
The Lived Experience of Homeless Youth: A Narrative Approach (2015, background): “…Tappan, 1997), the move from a positivist paradigm that conceives of meaning making as “information processing” to an interpretive paradigm that conceives of meaning making as an active process of narrative engagement (e.g., Hammack, 2008, 2011; Hammack & Cohler, 2009; Hammack & Toolis, 2014).”
Applying the Master Narrative Framework to Gender Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood (2017, background): “Both of these approaches have also emphasized the personal aspects of identity development, with less attention to the cultural context of identity development (cf. Hammack, 2008).”