Storytelling and narrative-based approaches in psychology research and practice
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3 – Good Health & Wellbeing.
Humans instinctively develop and organise knowledge, experience, memories, intentions, aspirations, life histories, and personal identities into narrative patterns and plots. Narrative psychology concerns itself with the importance of such life storytelling to how people navigate the world, connect and engage with others, and understand themselves.
This collection is dedicated to highlighting the application and value of narrative-based research approaches in psychology research and practice, across diverse populations and contexts.
Contributions are primarily invited from the psychological sciences — notably personality psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, health psychology, and organisational psychology — as are those from allied fields, such as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and the medical humanities.
Research of all types is welcomed, whether theoretical, empirical, or methodological in nature.
Perspectives that explore proximate themes — e.g. memory, experience, use of narrative approaches in policymaking — provided they relate to narrative approaches are also encouraged.
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