The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
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], [>]
incest story example, [>]–[>]
justice and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
uncomfortable scenarios, [>]–[>]
Moral Laboratory, The (Hakemulder), [>]
Morley, Christopher, [>]
murder trial story, [>]–[>]
music
one-year olds and, [>]
poetry in songs, [>]–[>], [>]
story and, [>]-[>], [>], [>]–[>]
time spent listening to, [>]–[>]
Nabokov, Vladimir, [>]
Namesake (Lahiri), [>]
Nasdijj, [>]–[>]
Nass, Clifford, [>]–[>]
National Era (newspaper), [>]
National Football League
commercials and, [>], [>]
story and, [>]
national myths
description/examples, [>]–[>], [>]
purpose, [>], [>]
revisionist historians, [>]–[>]
Nazis
book-burning, [>]–[>]
See also Hitler, Adolf (“Adolfus”)
Nettle, Daniel, [>]
New Grub Street (Gissing), [>]
New Journalism, [>]
New World Order, [>]
New Yorker, The, [>]–[>]
New York Times, [>]–[>]
New York Times Magazine, [>]–[>]
Night of the Gun, The (Carr), [>]
9/11 attacks
conspiracy theories, [>], [>], [>]
false memory with, [>]–[>]
novels and future of story, [>]–[>], [>]
nursery rhymes/fairy tales, [>]–[>], [>]
Oatley, Keith, [>], [>]
Obama, Barack, conspiracy theories about, [>]
O’Brian, Patrick, [>]
“Old Witch, The” (fairy tale), [>]
Old Yeller (film), [>]
Olympic coverage and story, [>]
opposable thumb, [>], [>]
Oprah/Oprah Winfrey Show, The, [>]–[>]
oral storytelling
community and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
group norms and, [>]
!Kung San storyteller, [>], [>], [>]
Original Ku Klux Klan, [>]
Osbournes, The (television), [>]
Ost, James, [>]
Paley, Vivian
background, [>]
gender of children and behavior, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
pretend play of children, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (Richardson), [>]
Pankeev (Pankejeff), Sergei “Wolf Man,” [>]
Parkinson’s disease, [>]
Peter Pan (play), [>]
Philbrick, Nathaniel, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Piaget, Jean, [>]
Pinker, Steven
evolutionary purpose of fiction, [>]
“Great Hypocrisy” of life stories, [>]
story and social life practice, [>], [>]–[>]
Pink Panther, The, [>]
Pinsky, Robert, [>]
planted memories
1990s therapists and, [>]
confidence in, [>], [>]–[>]
experiments with childhood memories, [>]–[>]
false mall episode memory, [>]
Marie G./Bernheim story, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
as “retroactive hallucinations,” [>], [>]
Plath, Sylvia, [>]
Plato, [>]
Plowman, Amy, [>]
Poe, Edgar Allan, [>]
Poetics (Aristotle), [>]
poetry in songs, [>]–[>], [>]
poets and bipolar disorder, [>]–[>]
political commentators as storytellers, [>]
Power of Play, The (Elkind), [>]
Practical People vs. Story People, [>]–[>]
Price of Greatness, The (Ludwig), [>]
problem simulation theory. See dream functions/problem simulation theory; story functions/problem simulation theory
Proust, Marcel, [>]
pro wrestling and story, [>]–[>], [>]
Psycho (film), [>]
Puebla, Dióscoro, [>]
Queer Eye (television), [>]
Raging Bull (film), [>]
Rakim, [>]
random activation theory. See RAT (random activation theory)
rap lyrics/music, [>]
RAT (random activation theory)
brain’s reaction to dreams, [>], [>]
criticism of, [>]–[>]
description, [>]–[>]
dreams in other species and, [>], [>]
strangeness of dreams and, [>]–[>]
RBD (REM behavior disorder), [>]
Real Housewives of New Jersey, The (television), [>]
Reality Hunger (Shields), [>]
reality television shows
future of story and, [>], [>]–[>]
storytelling and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
See also specific shows
recommendations on story, [>]–[>]
Reeves, Byron, [>]–[>]
religion
atheist’s perspective on, [>]
basic features, [>]
monotheisms’ stories, [>]–[>]
religious stories, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as universal, [>]–[>]
religion and evolution
benefits to groups, [>]–[>], [>]
as by-product, [>]–[>]
REM behavior disorder (RBD), [>]
REM sleep
about, [>], [>]
atonia with, [>]
dream statistics, [>]–[>]
Revonsuo, Antti
criticism of RAT, [>]–[>]
dream statistics, [>]–[>]
trouble in dreams, [>]–[>], [>]
Richardson, Samuel, [>], [>]
Rickey, David, [>]
Rienzi (novel by Bulwer-Lytton), [>]
Rienzi (Wagner), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Road, The (McCarthy), [>]-[>], [>]
Roberts, Nora, [>]
Roots (Haley), [>]
Rowling, J.K., [>]–[>], [>]
RPGs (role-playing games), [>]–[>]
Russian LARP Stalker, [>]
Sacks, Oliver, [>]
Sandler, Adam, [>]
Schicklgruber, Alois, [>], [>]–[>]
See also Hitler, Alois
schizophrenia
creative artists and, [>]
first description of, [>]
James Tilly Matthews, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
symptoms of, [>]
science
explaining story and story magic, [>]-[>], [>]
stories and, [>]
self-assessments
criminals and, [>], [>], [>]
depressed people and, [>], [>]
“Lake Woebegone effect, the,” [>]
photographs vs. mirror image, [>]–[>]
research examples, [>]–[>]
self-aggrandizement beginnings, [>]
self-deception and despair, [>]–[>]
See also life stories
Shakespeare, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Shelley, [>]
Shields, David, [>], [>]
Shield, The (television), [>]
Shrek (film), [>]
Simmel, Marianne, [>]–[>], [>]
Singer, Dorothy/Jerome, [>]
Smoking Gun, [>]
Sophie’s Choice (film), [>]
Sopranos, The (television), [>], [>]
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), [>]
“Sound of Thunder, A” (Bradbury), [>]–[>]
Speer, Albert, [>]
split-brain studies
brain’s wiring effects and, [>]–[>]
epileptic patient, [>]–[>]
explaining answers and, [>]–[>]
Gazzaniga’s studies, [>]–[>], [>]
left/right brain functions, [>], [>]–[>]
sports
2010 Masters Golf Tournament, [>]
pro wrestling and story, [>]–[>], [>]
televised sports, [>]–[>]
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br /> See also National Football League
Spotts, Frederic, [>], [>]
Star Trek: The Next Generation, [>]–[>]
Star Trek, [>]–[>], [>]
Star Wars, [>]–[>]
“Stealing Cinderella” (song), [>]-[>]
Stein, Gertrude, [>]
story
benefits summary, [>]
formula differences and, [>]
as pervasive (overview), [>]–[>]
suggestions on, [>]–[>]
story and trouble
creativity within formula, [>]–[>], [>]
as essential, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
father/daughter grocery shopping example, [>]–[>]
master themes, [>]–[>]
modernist movement removing, [>]–[>]
real trouble vs. fictional trouble, [>]–[>], [>]
social life practice and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
story formula, [>]–[>], [>]
as universal story grammar, [>]
See also mirror neurons
story attraction
escapist theory, [>]–[>], [>]
fiction as drug, [>]
hyperrealist fiction and, [>]–[>], [>]
nonfiction with fictional techniques, [>]
real life vs. virtual world, [>]–[>]
time spent watching onscreen fiction, [>]–[>]
wish fulfillment and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
story formula, [>]–[>], [>]
story functions
biological purpose vs. side effect, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
information and, [>]
“inner Holmes” and, [>]
sexual selection and, [>], [>]
social glue and, [>]
storytelling mind and meaning, [>]–[>]
See also meaning fabrication
story functions/practice
amnesia victims and, [>]
dreams and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
flight simulators, [>], [>], [>], [>]
importance of, [>]
neural connections and, [>]–[>]
story and social life practice, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
story functions/problem simulation theory
fiction and social skills, [>]–[>]
flight simulator analogy, [>], [>], [>]
implicit memory and, [>]–[>], [>]
Pinker’s model, [>]–[>]
rewiring our brains and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
testing theory, [>]–[>]
See also mirror neurons
story future
concerns about, [>]–[>]
cultural ADHD and, [>]
“higher”/”lower” forms and, [>]–[>]
junk story and, [>]–[>]
LARP/larpers, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
novels and, [>]–[>], [>]
poetry in songs, [>]–[>], [>]
reality shows and, [>], [>]–[>]
real life vs. virtual world, [>]–[>]
sci-fi visions of, [>]–[>]
story formula and, [>]
university literature/English departments and, [>]–[>]
video games and, [>], [>]–[>]
See also MMORPG
story mind
as homunculus, [>], [>]
“inner Holmes” and, [>]
See also meaning fabrication
Story People vs. Practical People, [>]–[>]
story power
book-burning by Nazis, [>]–[>]
debate on, [>]–[>]
emotions of fiction and, [>]
examples, [>]–[>], [>]
Hitler/Rienzi and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
information processing effects, [>]–[>]
learning from fiction (examples), [>]
research on, [>]–[>]
scary fiction, [>]–[>]
sexual ethics and, [>]