Remembering apparent behavior: A study of narrative mediation
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Remembering apparent behavior : A study of narrative mediation. / Wagoner, Brady.
Yearbook of Idiographic Science. ed. / Sergio Salvatore; Jaan Valsiner; Joan Travers Simon; Alessandro Gennaro. Vol. 3 Rome : Firerq Publishing Group, 2011. p. 221-252.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Remembering apparent behavior
T2 - A study of narrative mediation
AU - Wagoner, Brady
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The present experiment systematically investigates the role of narrative templates (Wertsch, 2002) in remembering. To stimulate the construction of a diversity of narratives I used Heider and Simmel’s (1944) celebrated “apparent behavior” film, in which geometric shapes moving around a screen are seen by subjects as agents involved in a kind of story. Which narratives are used, as well as the “strength” subjects used them with, is then compared with what subjects remember and how they remember it. The relationship is not conceived causally (as if one variable determined or predicted another) but rather as constraints on an agent’s constructive potentials. My analysis involves attending to both general trends found across the sample, as well as the particularities of single cases, especially atypical cases. In other words, I use patterns found at the level of the sample to choose which subjects to attend to in the idiographic analysis. Generalization still moves from single case to general model and back to single case, but the movement is facilitated by analysis at the level of the sample as a whole.
AB - The present experiment systematically investigates the role of narrative templates (Wertsch, 2002) in remembering. To stimulate the construction of a diversity of narratives I used Heider and Simmel’s (1944) celebrated “apparent behavior” film, in which geometric shapes moving around a screen are seen by subjects as agents involved in a kind of story. Which narratives are used, as well as the “strength” subjects used them with, is then compared with what subjects remember and how they remember it. The relationship is not conceived causally (as if one variable determined or predicted another) but rather as constraints on an agent’s constructive potentials. My analysis involves attending to both general trends found across the sample, as well as the particularities of single cases, especially atypical cases. In other words, I use patterns found at the level of the sample to choose which subjects to attend to in the idiographic analysis. Generalization still moves from single case to general model and back to single case, but the movement is facilitated by analysis at the level of the sample as a whole.
UR - https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/remembering-apparent-behavior(0271bf22-0d95-4403-91be-4daaca82709c).html
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-88-6538-014-7
VL - 3
SP - 221
EP - 252
BT - Yearbook of Idiographic Science
A2 - Salvatore, Sergio
A2 - Valsiner, Jaan
A2 - Simon, Joan Travers
A2 - Gennaro, Alessandro
PB - Firerq Publishing Group
CY - Rome
ER -
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