Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge and memory : the real story / Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson
  • Celebrating the story in social perception, communication, and behavior / John H. Harvey and Rene ́Martin
  • Primacy of stories, the primacy of roles, and the polarizing effects of interpretive motives : some propositions about narratives / Roy F. Baumeister and Leonard S. Newman
  • To assert that essentially all human knowledge and memory is represented in terms of stories is certainly wrong / William F. Brewer
  • Why stories? some evidence, questions, and challeges / Arthur C. Graesser and Victor Ottati
  • Big picture : is it a story? / Reid Hastie and Nancy Pennington
  • Stories are fundamental to meaning and memory : for social creatures, could it be otherwise? / Stephen John Read and Lynn Carol Miller
  • Stories about stories / David C. Rubin
  • Representation and narrative : a commentary on Schank and Abelson's 'knowledge and memory' / Linda M. Scott
  • Personal storytelling in everyday life : social and cultural perspectives / Peggy J. Miller
  • Stories in memory : developmental issues / Katherine Nelson
  • Memory for events in close relationships : applying Schank and Abelson's story skeleton model / John G. Holmes and Sandra L. Murray
  • Stories, identity, and the psychological sense of community / Eric Mankowski and Julian Rappaport
  • So all knowledge isn't stories? / Robert P. Abelson and Roger C. Schank