Nice video. I am thinking that conjunction bias and hyperactive agency detectors are both linked to this ‘story bias’. Of course religion milks this set for all it’s worth.
Another question that came to me was whether telling children stories helps them or wires them up to keep thinking in terms of stories.
Just watched Tyler Cowen at TEDx Mid-Atlantic 2009-11-05 talking about how our love of stories misleads us. We talk about good-story bias on the Wiki.
Is there a way good-story bias could be experimentally verified?
late to the party? :)
Nice video. I am thinking that conjunction bias and hyperactive agency detectors are both linked to this ‘story bias’. Of course religion milks this set for all it’s worth.
Another question that came to me was whether telling children stories helps them or wires them up to keep thinking in terms of stories.
Tyler Cowen tells a nice story here.
As he points out.