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Familiar Story Structures Possess an Evolutionary Edge in Memory

2023-04-21

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<p>Human beings demonstrate a universal impulse to share and consume stories. Over generations of transmission, within and across cultures, stories have evolved, with some story structures surviving better than others. Here, we investigate the factors theorized to guide this selection. Across three studies, our project tracks the evolution of stories in real time as participants tell and retell a story for 5 days...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wp9x4

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