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Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking
Storytelling represents a key element in the creation and propagation of culture. Three main accounts of the adaptive function of storytelling include (a) manipulating the behavior of the audience to enhance the fitness of the narrator, (b) transmitting survival‐relevant information while avoiding t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12358 |
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author | Bietti, Lucas M. Tilston, Ottilie Bangerter, Adrian |
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description | Storytelling represents a key element in the creation and propagation of culture. Three main accounts of the adaptive function of storytelling include (a) manipulating the behavior of the audience to enhance the fitness of the narrator, (b) transmitting survival‐relevant information while avoiding the costs involved in the first‐hand acquisition of that information, and (c) maintaining social bonds or group‐level cooperation. We assess the substantial evidence collected in experimental and ethnographic studies for each account. These accounts do not always appeal to the specific features of storytelling above and beyond language use in general. We propose that the specific adaptive value of storytelling lies in making sense of non‐routine, uncertain, or novel situations, thereby enabling the collaborative development of previously acquired skills and knowledge, but also promoting social cohesion by strengthening intragroup identity and clarifying intergroup relations. |
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spelling | pubmed-73797142020-07-27 Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking Bietti, Lucas M. Tilston, Ottilie Bangerter, Adrian Top Cogn Sci Article Storytelling represents a key element in the creation and propagation of culture. Three main accounts of the adaptive function of storytelling include (a) manipulating the behavior of the audience to enhance the fitness of the narrator, (b) transmitting survival‐relevant information while avoiding the costs involved in the first‐hand acquisition of that information, and (c) maintaining social bonds or group‐level cooperation. We assess the substantial evidence collected in experimental and ethnographic studies for each account. These accounts do not always appeal to the specific features of storytelling above and beyond language use in general. We propose that the specific adaptive value of storytelling lies in making sense of non‐routine, uncertain, or novel situations, thereby enabling the collaborative development of previously acquired skills and knowledge, but also promoting social cohesion by strengthening intragroup identity and clarifying intergroup relations. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-06-28 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7379714/ /pubmed/29954043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12358 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Topics in Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Cognitive Science Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Article Bietti, Lucas M. Tilston, Ottilie Bangerter, Adrian Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking |
title | Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking |
title_full | Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking |
title_fullStr | Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking |
title_full_unstemmed | Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking |
title_short | Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking |
title_sort | storytelling as adaptive collective sensemaking |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12358 |
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