Hidden Brain

The Story of Stories

Mar 15, 2021

51:15

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Is It Unacceptable That You Tell Me There's No Answer?

01:43

Explanatory Virtues in Science and Politics

02:16

How Story Telling Shapes the Practice of Justice?

01:32

Introduction

4min

Potty Training Toddlers - What's Going On?

3min

The World of Stories and the World of Explanations

2min

Extracting the Structure of the World

2min

Explanations Are the Currency in Which We Understand Things

2min

Square Space - The All in One Platform to Build a Beautiful Online Presence

2min

Why Do I E?

2min

Explaining What Happened

2min

Learning From Explanations

3min

10.

The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

2min

11.

Learning by Thinking

2min

12.

Story Tellers Construct Mystery and Confusion and Uncertainty

2min

13.

The Explanatory System in the Brain

2min

14.

Is It Unacceptable That You Tell Me There's No Answer?

2min

15.

Hidden Brain

4min

16.

What Kind of Errors Do You Make?

1min

17.

The Cost of Failure to Learn

2min

18.

Explanatory Virtues in Science and Politics

2min

19.

Is It Easier to Let Go of Pet Theories?

2min

20.

How Story Telling Shapes the Practice of Justice?

2min

21.

The Toto Is Now a World Wide Sensation

2min

22.

Angenifer Whitson and Adam Gelinski - Pattern Recognition in the Stock Market

2min

23.

The Conspiracy Theory of the Nine Eleven Attacks

2min

24.

The Power of Explaining

2min

25.

Do You Have a Bias?

2min

26.

Hidden Brain - The Unsunk Hero

3min

27.

So It Bakers

29sec

Why is my friend late? How does nuclear fission work? What occurs when I sneeze? We all need to understand why certain things happen. Some researchers think the drive to explain the world is a basic human impulse, similar to thirst or hunger. This week on Hidden Brain, we begin a three part series on why we tell stories. Psychologist Tania Lombrozo discusses how explanations can lead to discovery, delight, and disaster.