The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

by Jonathan Gottschall

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Gottschall draws on evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and literature to argue that humans are fundamentally a storytelling species. Stories are not entertainment — they are how we make sense of ourselves and each other.

Published:: 2012
Pages:: 272

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Jonathan Gottschall's The Storytelling Animal is cited for its argument that "ordinary, mentally healthy people are strikingly prone" to confabulation. Brown uses this to show why learning to interrogate our own stories is central to rising strong from setbacks.

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