Interpersonal Accounts: A Social Psychological Perspective

by Ann L. Weber, John H. Harvey, Terri Orbuch

The human is perhaps bestdubbed 'homo narrans', the story-teller. In our search for meanings we constantly tell stories and make accounts to explain events and frame relationships. This book presents the first systematic analysis from a psychological standpoint of this universal and fundamental human capacity. Nowhere is our account-making more evident that at times of acute personal stress. In divorce and separation, death of a spouse, redundancy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 063117592X
• ISBN13: 9780631175926
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"