title: Narrative constructions and the life history issue in brain-emotions relations.
abstract: Emotional reactions are rather flexible, due to the schema-like organization of complex socio-emotional situations. Some data on emotion development, and on certain pathological conditions such as alexithymia, give further support for the psychological constructivist view put forward by Lindquist et al. Narrative organization is a key component of this schematic organization. The self-related nature of narrative organization provides scaffolding to the contextual dependency of emotions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Semmelweis University, 1083 Budapest, Hungary. unoka.zsolt@med.semmelweis-univ.hu
authors.forename: Zsolt
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Unoka
authors.forename: Eszter
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Berán
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pléh
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D059906:Neuroimaging; D011859:Radiography