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100 1 _aGottschall, Jonathan,
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245 1 4 _aThe storytelling animal :
_bhow stories make us human /
_cJonathan Gottschall.
260 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,
_cc2012.
300 _axvii, 248 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [215]-230) and index.
505 0 _aThe witchery of story The riddle of fiction Hell is story-friendly Night story The mind is a storyteller The moral of the story Ink people change the world Life stories The future of story
520 _aUndiscovered and unmapped country. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why? In this book, the author offers a unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems, just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, he tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal. Did you know that the more absorbed you are in a story, the more it changes your behavior? That all children act out the same kinds of stories, whether they grow up in a slum or a suburb? That people who read more fiction are more empathetic? Of course, our story instinct has a darker side. It makes us vulnerable to conspiracy theories, advertisements, and narratives about ourselves that are more "truthy" than true. National myths can also be terribly dangerous: Hitler's ambitions were partly fueled by a story. But as is shown in this book, stories can also change the world for the better. Most successful stories are moral; they teach us how to live, whether explicitly or implicitly, and bind us together around common values. We know we are master shapers of story. This book finally reveals how stories shape us.
650 0 _aStorytelling.
650 0 _aLiterature and science.
650 4 _aLiteratura y ciencia
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650 4 _aPsicología social
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650 4 _aIdentidad colectiva
_xAspectos psicológicos
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