[1] Jerome Bruner explored the "narrative kind of knowing" in a more empirical way in his 1986 book Actual Minds, Possible Worlds.
[11][12] Narrative psychological approaches have become influential in research into the self and identity, as analysing life stories can explore the "unity and coherence" of the self.
[14] Narrative psychologists use interviews to provide an opportunity for a person to give a detailed account of their life or particular events.
These narrative interviews can then be transcribed and analyzed to explore both their structure and content with reference to the immediate and broader social context.
[16][17] According to Brown and Taylor (1997), formerly enslaved African-Americans have made contributions to narrative psychology by participating in the Federal Writers' Project that was conducted from 1937 to 1938.
to be folklorist Ruby Pickens Tartt, who worked principally in rural Sumter County in Alabama.