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40811 - When Do Stories Work? Narrative Persuasion

Mon, August 11, 2:00 to 3:30pm, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Concourse Level/Bronze, Randolph 2

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Can you tell your story in a way that will win you a cash grant? That will get you hired despite the fact that you have a criminal record? Can you tell a story about an individual victim of the Holocaust that will lead a far-right partisan to commit to combating antisemitism? Can a nation reap benefits from telling the story of its victimhood long after it has become a world power? Can we tell a story about what makes us human beings that does not depend on our being the only ones with consciousness? In asking these questions, papers explore the mechanisms by which narratives work: how they integrate novelty and familiarity; how they figure the protagonist’s difference from the audience; how they relate what happened (in the past) to what should happen (in the future).

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