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Baron, Jacqueline M.; Bluck, Susan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The objective of this research was to develop a preliminary Perceived Story Quality Index to assess laypersons' views of story quality. Research to date has not employed a standard measure of perceived quality, nor reported whether different lay-raters judge stories similarly. The study involved systematically generating core dimensions of…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Evaluation Criteria, Story Grammar, Lay People
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Nelson, Kristin L.; Moskovitz, Damian J.; Steiner, Hans – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The event specificity of autobiographical memories refers to the degree to which retold memories include specific details about a unique personal experience from a variety of representational systems supported by different brain areas. This article proposes 2 text measures as indicators of event specificity: (a) a measure of temporal sequence in…
Descriptors: Memory, Narration, Emotional Experience, Personal Narratives