Sunday, July 17, 2016

The power of story

Across time and culture, stories have been agents of personal transformation. For thousands of years, we’ve known intuitively that stories alter our thinking and, in turn, the way we engage with the world. But only recently has research begun to shed light on how this transformation takes place from inside. Using modern technology like functional MRI (fMRI) scanning, scientists are tackling age-old questions.

http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=6247