For millennia, narratives have been a primary mode of oral discourse. Narrative presentation
of information has been shown to facilitate interpersonal and group communication …

Ingratiation seems to be extremely useful in the initial stage of interpersonal interaction.
Recently, scholars have drawn attention to the role of ingratiation in the special context of …

The present investigation examined how three salient features of narrative thinking (situation
model construction, linguistic concreteness, and perspective-taking) influenced the social …

Although research has given substantial attention to understanding the antecedents of
dispositional inferences, less attention has been directed at the consequences of these …

Causes of behavior are often classified as either dispositional (eg, personality) or situational
(eg, circumstances). However, the disposition–situation dichotomy confounds locus (internal …

Sedikides's immunity model of psychological homeostasis (this issue) presents a theoretical
framework to understand a variety of self-protective social and cognitive psychological …

Narrative cognition is a fundamental component of event comprehension and social
communication. The present article examines the role of mental simulation in narrative …

The old adage “Nothing happens until a sale is made” most likely is true given that all
business activities ultimately are geared toward getting and repeating the sale, be it big or …

Narratives are a fundamental component of event comprehension and social
communication. The present article examines the role of mental simulation in narrative …

Abstract According to the Narrative Transportation model of persuasion, narrative
persuasion is structurally different from non-narrative persuasion, and therefore not …