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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis
- slowmovintarget 6y ago> ...Across ~40,000 traditional narratives, we found strong, highly consistent evidence of these structures. Stage setting, plot progression, and cognitive tension exhibited coherent patterns of unfolding across genres, authorship attributes, and story lengths. Moreover, each narrative dimension unfolded in theoretically consistent ways: staging tends to occur at its highest at the beginning of a story, followed by a rise in plot progression, paired with a rise and fall in cognitive tension around the middle-to-late parts of a story. Stories have a consistent shape. Even other primates tell simple stories of this shape: staging, plot, cognitive tension. It may be an adaptation, speculates the article, for how to ascribe actions to objects and communicate this during the learning process.
- krishnakumar_kk 6y agoThe narrative of big tech CEOs during July 2020 US antitrust hearing analysed https://storytellingcorp.com/the-importance-of-leadership-narrative-in-crisis/ https://storytellingcorp.com/the-importance-of-leadership-na.... With the new suit against Apple, there is going to be more scrutiny of the CEOs narrative and their actions.