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This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world—and why stories matter. How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do st
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There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion. Hogan maintains that debates over the cul
A New Theory of Mind
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This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that t