Psychological Narrative Analysis

Psychological Narrative Analysis
Author: John R. Schafer
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0398079285

During the author's 25 years as a police officer and FBI special agent, he witnessed countless lies told for a variety of reasons in every imaginable circumstance from petty criminals to sophisticated international spies, each with differing levels of ability to lie convincingly. This led to groundbreaking research examining the grammatical differences between truthful and deceptive narratives and the development of organized word and grammar patterns. This robust Psychological Narrative Analysis (PNA) system tests truthfulness in both written and oral communications and provides clues to the communication styles and behavioral characteristics of others. PNA techniques identify specific words, speech patterns, and grammar structures that reveal clues to a person's personality, which helps evaluate the veracity of what they say. The first part of the book presents a full range of PNA techniques in concise, everyday language, including word clues, human communication and deception, lying by obfuscation, lying by omission, the micro-action interview, and testing for deception. Examples accompany each technique where applicable. The second part offers examples of PNA using oral and written communications taken from actual cases or real-life situations. Substantial appendices review the PNA of written and oral communications, along with practice statements for the reader, followed by a PNA of those exercises.

Essentials of Narrative Analysis

Essentials of Narrative Analysis
Author: Ruthellen Josselson
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021
Genre: Narrative inquiry (Research method)
ISBN: 9781433835674

"The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data. In this book, Ruthellen Josselson and Phillip L. Hammack introduce readers to Narrative Analysis, a qualitative method that investigates how people make meaning of their lives and experiences in both social and cultural contexts. This method offers researchers a window into how individuals' stories are shaped by the categories they inhabit, such as gender, race, class, and sexual identity, and it preserves the voice of the individual through a close textual analysis of their storytelling. About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods"--

Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology

Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology
Author: Evanthia Lyons
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-10-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857024345

Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology equips students and researchers in psychology and the social sciences to carry out qualitative data analysis, focusing on four major methods (grounded theory, interpretative phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis). Assuming no prior knowledge of qualitative research, chapters on the nature, assumptions and practicalities of each method are written by acknowledged experts. To help students and researchers make informed methodological choices about their own research the book addresses data collection and the writing up of research using each method, while providing a sustained comparison of the four methods, backed up with authoritative analyses using the different methods.

The Science of Stories

The Science of Stories
Author: János László
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134048408

The Science of Stories explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research, the book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities. Based on linguistic analysis and computer technology, Laszlo offers an innovative methodology which aims to uncover underlying psychological processes in narrative texts. The reader is presented with a theoretical framework along with a series of studies which explore the way a systematic linguistic analysis of narrative discourse can lead to a scientific study of identity construction, both individual and group. The book gives a critical overview of earlier narrative theories and summarizes previous scientific attempts to uncover relationships between language and personality. It also deals with social memory and group identity: various narrative forms of historical representations (history books, folk narratives, historical novels) are analyzed as to how they construct the past of a nation. The Science of Stories is the first book to build a bridge between scientific and hermeneutic studies of narratives. As such, it will be of great interest to a diverse spectrum of readers in social science and the liberal arts, including those in the fields of cognitive science, social psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literary studies and history.

Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis

Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis
Author: Kathy Charmaz
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1609181425

This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like in action. The researchers then probe the similarities and differences among their approaches; their distinctive purposes and strengths; the role, style, and subjectivity of the individual researcher; and the scientific and ethical complexities of conducting qualitative research. Also included are the research participant's responses to each analysis of her experience. A narrative account from another research participant, "Gail," can be used by readers to practice the kinds of analysis explored in the book.

Varieties of Narrative Analysis

Varieties of Narrative Analysis
Author: James A. Holstein
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1412987555

Offers practical illustrations from different disciplines and perspectives, showing how researchers from various backgrounds deal with narrative data.

Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology

Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology
Author: Peter Emerson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004-04-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230000673

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different 'levels'. These focus on narrative texts from a boy labelled as 'sexually abusive', analyzed seqentially from micro- to more global levels. Through this extended example, the book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis.

Qualitative Research in Psychology

Qualitative Research in Psychology
Author: Dr Paul M Camic
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781433834455

This updated edition of Qualitative Research in Psychology brings together a diverse group of scholars to illuminate the value that qualitative methods bring to studying psychological phenomena in depth and in context.

Narrative Analysis

Narrative Analysis
Author: Catherine Kohler Riessman
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2022-05-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1452208646

Students, academics and professionals in qualitative research methods, interpersonal communication, sociolinguistics, sociology and anthropology

Narrative Analysis

Narrative Analysis
Author: Martin Cortazzi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134079893

An important recent development in the study of teaching is the use of narrative analysis to study teachers' lives, their work and anecdotes exchanged in the staffroom.; This book critically examines current approaches to the study of teachers' narratives and argues that, for narrative research to be effective, we need to see narrative in a multi- disciplinary perspective. The book examines models of narrative analysis currently proposed in linguistics, sociology, psycology, anthropology and literature and applies insights from these disciplines to the study of teachers' narratives. The author proposes an alternative approach to studying narratives which is then applied to original data, demonstrating how narrative analysis can be used to study primary teachers' perceptions of their work. lt is suggested that narrative analysis could be used to study the perceptions or culture of any professional group.