Story is powerful

Can Watching Movies Rewire Your Brain?
Revealing new Stanford research finds that when people lose themselves in a story, they become more empathetic.

The study is a test of what psychologists call “narrative transportation,” the idea that when people lose themselves in a story, their attitudes change. It’s the academic version of the frequently shared Roger Ebert quote in which he called movies “a machine that generates empathy,”

By Rebecca Keegan

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