Narrative and the Emergence of a Consciousness of Self

By Katherine G. Nelson. 2003

89 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication

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Citations in the corpus

• The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience (2008, background): “…as (a) the influence of culture and available literary genres on how people understand themselves and their lives in narrative terms (Bruner, 2003; Nelson, 2003a, 2003b; Wang & Brockmeier, 2002), (b) recognition of the mental aspects of other social agents (Cupchik & Hilscher, 2004), (c) links…”
• Stories vs. facts: triggering emotion and action-taking on climate change (2019, background): “Research from diverse fields suggests that story structure matches human neural maps and how we make sense of the world from birth (Donald 1991; Nelson 2003; Pinker 2003; Plotkin 1982): we process and communicate in story structure (Gopnik et al. 1999).”