Negative emotional narratives

Negative emotional narratives are a type of retelling that individuals produce after having experienced a negative emotional episode. They might have either a written or oral form and Always presuppose an addressee, real or symbolic (i.e., a diary), to whom the content is exposed. Following a negative event, individuals narrate what they have experienced along with expressing their emotional feelings and referring personal evaluations and associated meanings. If follows that negative emotional narratives do not simply correspond to objective reproductions of unpleasant facts; instead they are personal reconstructions of memory contents intertwined into the individual’s life story.