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Abstract This essay develops a theory of identities, selves, and ‘the self’ that both explains the sense in which selves are narratively constituted also how self relates to person's individual autobiographical identity their various social identities. I argue identities contents structured representations, some hosted individually form, others collectively biographical form. These turn, give r...

Story events are a psychological cause of emotional reactions, which in turn, motivate subsequent actions. This study addresses the degree of specificity of readers' inferences about fictional characters' emotions. In Experiment 1 (off-line), participants read short stories and selected the emotional term that was more consistent with the protagonist's emotion. Results indicated that participan...