ABSTRACT
The significant findings in this program of research have a number of applied uses. In thinking about applications, I found it useful to take a step back and ask, “Why would people tell stories that are capable of eliciting emotion?” My answer to that question is largely based on an elegant set of functions of communication proposed by Dance and Larson (1976). Because these functions were heuristically useful, I introduce them and use them as a framework for offering examples of applications in specific contexts.
