Science Advances: The Arc of Narrative
Channel: Ryan Boyd
Date: 2020-08-07

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Read the paper at: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/32/eaba2196

Philosophers, writers, and scholars have long tried to identify the most basic, quintessential properties of stories. We know that the purpose of stories is to share events and ideas with one another, bringing them to life in the minds of the audience. While stories can take be about virtually anything — with different characters, contexts, conflicts, and so on — the underlying social psychological processes that drive a story have never been directly observed using scientific tools. Until now, that is.