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“Insightful...draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”— The New York Times Book Review Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but  why ? In this delightful, original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first 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, Gottschall 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

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Author

Jonathan Gottschall

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299884342

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Language Learning, Psychology

Rating

3.66 / 5 (2,393 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13