| Abstract: | Comments on G. S. Howard's (see record 1991-17124-001) article on narrative in which K. Gergen remarked on the paucity of important experiments in narrative psychology. In social psychology, however, these few have become classics. The 1963 experiment for which S. Milgram is remembered had all of the elements of a parable: vivid imagery, conceptual simplicity, a story line, and an outcome that few expected. Such narratives can be told as parables and are the mythical underpinnings of social psychology; they form the culture that tells social psychologists who they are. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
