014 - Narratives - Melanie C. Green
You Are Not So Smart
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How Stories Can Increase Perceptions of Competence
People use stories rather than other forms of information In interpersonal interaction. If you use a story that increases perceptions of somebody as being sort of warm and friendly Um, whereas if you use statistics and facts that Increases perceptions of competence. And then the other thing that we've found in our lab is that if people are if they're the ones that are good at telling the stories What that seems to do is increase perceptions that either that person is of higher status Or that they have the potential to achieve higher status That's very cool. I would like to think that their that sort of stuff is still happening out there somewhere Mm-hmm.
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