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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals

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The Story Brain

In the book, i write about studies which show that people become extremely preoccupied with the relative amount of orange juice that's poured in their glass. So a, you know, t in the subconscious. Sometimes researchers call it the status detection system. Ta, i work out where we are on the pecking order. We have vercently known, and we judge it symbolically.

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