The Importance of Stories in Human Psychology

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People seem to be powered almost exclusively by stories. And it turns out one of the things that makes a story sell better is if it's a scary story. We're at this stage where we're so busy consuming stories about what could go wrong, he says. "I think I gravely underestimated how important stories are to human psychology"

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